2022 Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Acting is the 319th most popular major in the country with 1,944 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 665 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 38 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,887 and $46,998 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in acting. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent acting programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the acting program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Acting in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

George Washington University

Washington, District of Columbia

#1 in overall quality

$31,824 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Washington University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region. GWU is a large school located in Washington, District of Columbia that handed out 15 masters’s acting degrees in 2019-2020.

GWU also made our “Best Acting Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at GWU are $31,824, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Acting at GWU

#2

The New School

New York, New York

#2 in overall quality

$47,642 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The New School. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. New York, New York is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s acting degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

New School University also made our “Best Acting Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at New School University are $47,642, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Acting at The New School

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Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Donald Judge.

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