2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts in Oregon (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Theater Schools for a Master’s in Oregon For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Drama & Theater Arts is the 59th most popular major in the country with 18,124 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, drama and theater arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $21,403 and had an average of $26,932 in loans still to pay off.

Across Oregon, there were 197 drama and theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,900 and $22,062 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 drama and theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Theater Schools for a Master’s in Oregon For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in drama and theater arts. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent drama and theater arts programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the drama and theater arts program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Theater Schools for a Master’s in Oregon For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Theater Schools for a Master’s in Oregon For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts in Oregon (With Aid)

#1

Southern Oregon University

Ashland, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$23,445 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Oregon University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Theater Schools for a Master’s in Oregon For Those Getting Aid. Southern Oregon University is located in Ashland, Oregon and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 13 masters’s theater degrees to qualified students.

Southern Oregon University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Drama & Theater Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Oregon” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Southern Oregon University are $23,445, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Drama & Theater Arts at Southern Oregon University

#2

University of Oregon

Eugene, Oregon

$29,991 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Theater Schools for a Master’s in Oregon For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Oregon landed the #2 spot on the list. Eugene, Oregon is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s theater degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

UO also took the #0 spot in our “Best Drama & Theater Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Oregon” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UO are $29,991, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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