2024 Best Playwriting & Screenwriting Schools in the Southeast Region
2Colleges in the Southeast Region
53Playwriting and Screenwriting Degrees Awarded
A degree in playwriting & screenwriting is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #521 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of playwriting & screenwriting. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 53 degrees in playwriting & screenwriting during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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 Schools in the Southeast Region.
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Best Schools for Playwriting & Screenwriting in the Southeast Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the playwriting and screenwriting degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Southeast Region Schools in Playwriting and Screenwriting
Emory University is a great choice for students interested in a degree in playwriting & screenwriting. Emory is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Atlanta.
There were about 2 playwriting & screenwriting students who graduated with this degree at Emory in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in playwriting & screenwriting has to check out Florida State University. Florida State is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Tallahassee.
There were approximately 7 playwriting & screenwriting students who graduated with this degree at Florida State in the most recent data year.
Savannah College of Art and Design is a good choice for students pursuing a degree in playwriting & screenwriting. Located in the city of Savannah, SCAD is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
There were roughly 36 playwriting & screenwriting students who graduated with this degree at SCAD in the most recent year we have data available.
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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).
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