2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acting Major in Illinois

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In 2020-2021, 1,793 people earned their degree in acting, making the major the 323rd most popular in the United States.

Across Illinois, there were 112 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,317 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acting Major in Illinois” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in acting. That schools that top this list have a program in acting in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acting Major in Illinois

The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois master’s degree acting students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Acting in Illinois

1

Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

#13 overall quality in Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia College Chicago. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acting Major in Illinois list. This medium-sized school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 7 masters’s acting degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Acting at Columbia

2

DePaul University
Chicago, Illinois

#7 overall quality in Illinois

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acting Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, DePaul University landed the #2 spot on the list. DePaul University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 7 masters’s acting degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Acting at DePaul

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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

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