2024 Best Playwriting & Screenwriting Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region
2Colleges in the Plains States Region
36Master's Degrees
a master's degree in playwriting & screenwriting is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #292 out of 1172 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Playwriting & Screenwriting Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 36 master's degrees in playwriting & screenwriting during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Playwriting & Screenwriting Master's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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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).