2024 Best Acting Associate Degree Schools in California
3Colleges in California
169Associate Degrees
If you plan on getting your associate degree in acting, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #198 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Acting Associate Degree Schools in California ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 169 associate degrees in acting during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Acting School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of acting for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to acting students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of acting students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized acting related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for acting students working on their associate degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Acting Associate Degree Schools in California list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Acting in California
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in acting.
Academy of Art University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting an associate degree in acting. Located in the city of San Francisco, Academy of Art University is a private for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a associate in acting from Academy of Art University
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).