2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Acting Major in Connecticut

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Acting is the 323rd most popular major in the country with 1,793 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Connecticut, there were 24 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 23 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,551 and $25,342 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Acting Major in Connecticut” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in acting. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in acting.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Acting Major in Connecticut

The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut bachelor’s degree acting students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Acting in Connecticut

1

University of Hartford
West Hartford, Connecticut

#9 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Hartford. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Acting Major in Connecticut. Located in West Hartford, Connecticut, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 14 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s acting students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full University of Hartford Acting Report

2

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

#4 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Acting Major in Connecticut list. Located in Storrs, Connecticut, this large public school handed out 9 degrees to qualified bachelors’s acting students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full University of Connecticut Acting Report

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.