2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Playwriting & Screenwriting in the Southeast 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 Southeast region, there were 53 playwriting and screenwriting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 28 playwriting and screenwriting graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Playwriting and Screenwriting Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in playwriting and screenwriting. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in playwriting and screenwriting.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Playwriting and Screenwriting Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Playwriting and Screenwriting Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Playwriting & Screenwriting in the Southeast Region

1

Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Savannah College of Art and Design. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Playwriting and Screenwriting Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s 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 26 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Savannah College of Art and Design Playwriting & Screenwriting Report

2

Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia

#5 overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Playwriting and Screenwriting Major in the Southeast Region for a Bachelor’s. Emory is located in Atlanta, Georgia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s playwriting and screenwriting degrees to qualified students.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Playwriting & Screenwriting at Emory University

• Most Popular Bachelor’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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Donald Judge.