2022 Best Value Playwriting and Screenwriting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Playwriting and Screenwriting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 746 people earned their degree in playwriting and screenwriting, making the major the 518th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 80 playwriting and screenwriting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 41 playwriting and screenwriting graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Playwriting and Screenwriting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in playwriting and screenwriting. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent playwriting and screenwriting programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the playwriting and screenwriting program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Playwriting and Screenwriting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree playwriting and screenwriting students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Playwriting & Screenwriting (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia

#1 in overall quality

$11,468 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Emory University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Playwriting and Screenwriting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Atlanta, Georgia, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s playwriting and screenwriting students in 2019-2020.

Emory also made our “Best Playwriting & Screenwriting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Emory is $11,468 for southeast region bachelor’s degree playwriting and screenwriting students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Playwriting & Screenwriting at Emory University

#2

Savannah College of Art and Design

Savannah, Georgia

#2 in overall quality

$40,908 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Playwriting and Screenwriting Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Savannah College of Art and Design landed the #2 spot on the list. Savannah, Georgia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s playwriting and screenwriting degrees to 38 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at SCAD, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Playwriting & Screenwriting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $40,908 for southeast region bachelor’s degree playwriting and screenwriting students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend SCAD.

Read full report on Playwriting & Screenwriting at Savannah College of Art and Design

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Playwriting & Screenwriting (Income $0-$30k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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