2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts in the New England Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Drama & Theater Arts is the 59th most popular major in the country with 17,341 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, drama and theater arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $23,190 and had an average of $23,522 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 985 drama and theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,365 and $26,358 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 drama and theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in drama and theater arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their drama and theater arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the New England Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tufts University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the New England Region. Tufts is located in Medford, Massachusetts and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 doctorate’s theater degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brown University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the New England Region. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified doctorate’s theater students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Drama & Theater Arts at Brown University
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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
- *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.
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