2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts in Arkansas

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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 Arkansas, there were 92 drama and theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $22,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 drama and theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,293 and $39,432 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great drama and theater arts programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the drama and theater arts 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 Theater Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Theater Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts in Arkansas

#1

University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$22,121 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arkansas. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Theater Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas. UARK is a large public school situated in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It awarded 1 masters’s theater degrees in 2019-2020.

UARK also took the #1 spot in our “Best Drama & Theater Arts Master’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UARK are $22,121, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full University of Arkansas Drama & Theater Arts Report

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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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