2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Playwriting and Screenwriting Major in the Southwest Region

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In 2020-2021, 683 people earned their degree in playwriting and screenwriting, making the major the 521st most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 13 playwriting and screenwriting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 playwriting and screenwriting graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Playwriting and Screenwriting Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in playwriting and screenwriting. That schools that top this list have a program in playwriting and screenwriting in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Playwriting and Screenwriting Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree playwriting and screenwriting students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Playwriting & Screenwriting in the Southwest Region

1

University of New Mexico - Main Campus
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Playwriting and Screenwriting Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Mexico - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. University of New Mexico - Main Campus is a large school located in Albuquerque, New Mexico that handed out 1 masters’s playwriting and screenwriting degrees in 2020-2021.

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2

Houston Baptist University
Houston, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Playwriting and Screenwriting Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Houston Baptist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Houston Baptist University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Houston, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Playwriting & Screenwriting at HBU

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Playwriting & Screenwriting

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.

Credits

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