2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts in Tennessee

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Tennessee” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 17,341 people earned their degree in drama and theater arts, making the major the 59th most popular in the United States. 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 Tennessee, there were 251 drama and theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $19,907 and $23,062 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 drama and theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,060 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Tennessee” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in drama and theater arts. That schools that top this list have a program in drama and theater arts in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Tennessee

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Tennessee”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts in Tennessee

1

The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee

#3 overall quality in Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Tennessee list. The University of Tennessee - Knoxville is a large public school situated in Knoxville, Tennessee. It awarded 7 masters’s theater degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Drama & Theater Arts at UT Knoxville

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University of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee

#11 overall quality in Tennessee

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Memphis. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Tennessee. UofM is located in Memphis, Tennessee and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s theater degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Drama & Theater Arts at UofM

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts in the Southeast Region
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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

• *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

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