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2023 Most Well Attended Acting Major in Massachusetts for a Bachelor’s

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Most Well Attended Acting Major in Massachusetts for a Bachelor's

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Most Well Attended Acting Major in Massachusetts for a Bachelor’s” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across Massachusetts, there were 42 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 42 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,029 and $25,475 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Acting Major in Massachusetts for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in acting. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in acting.

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Most Well Attended Acting Major in Massachusetts for a Bachelor’s

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

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Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Acting Major in Massachusetts for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston University landed the #1 spot on the list. Boston U is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Boston, Massachusetts. It awarded 23 bachelors’s acting degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Acting at Boston University

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Salem State University
Salem, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Salem State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Acting Major in Massachusetts for a Bachelor’s. Located in Salem, Massachusetts, this medium-sized public school handed out 10 degrees to qualified bachelors’s acting students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Acting at Salem State University

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Emerson College
Boston, Massachusetts

Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Acting Major in Massachusetts for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Emerson College landed the #3 spot on the list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s acting degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Acting at Emerson College

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Bard College at Simon's Rock
Great Barrington, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bard College at Simon’s Rock. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended Acting Major in Massachusetts for a Bachelor’s. Bard College at Simon’s Rock is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. It awarded 0 bachelors’s acting degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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