2024 Best Playwriting & Screenwriting Master's Degree Schools in New York
3Colleges in New York
61Master's Degrees
Playwriting & Screenwriting is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #292 most popular master's degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of playwriting & screenwriting. Combined, these schools handed out 61 master's degrees in playwriting & screenwriting to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Playwriting & Screenwriting School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of playwriting & screenwriting for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality playwriting and screenwriting program can vary widely even among the top schools. 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 master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on playwriting & screenwriting students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of playwriting & screenwriting students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized playwriting & screenwriting related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for playwriting & screenwriting students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Playwriting & Screenwriting Schools
The playwriting and screenwriting school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Playwriting & Screenwriting Master's Degree Schools in New York.
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Featured Playwriting & Screenwriting Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Follow your passion and gain practical skills, through understanding of the importance of plot, scene and character with this specialized online master's from Southern New Hampshire University.
Harness your passion for storytelling with SNHU's Mountainview Low-Residency MFA in Fiction and Nonfiction. In this small, two-year creative writing program, students work one-on-one with our distinguished faculty remotely for most of the semester but convene for weeklong intensive residencies in June and January. At residencies, students critique each other's work face-to-face, meet with major authors, agents and editors and learn how to teach at the college level.
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).