2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts in Alaska

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Theater Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s” 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 Alaska, there were 13 drama and theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 13 drama and theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $45,855 and $24,086 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Theater Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in drama and theater arts. To top this list, a school must have a successful drama and theater arts program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Theater Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Theater Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts in Alaska

1

University of Alaska Anchorage
Anchorage, Alaska

#1 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Alaska Anchorage. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Theater Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s list. Anchorage, Alaska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s theater degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Drama & Theater Arts at University of Alaska Anchorage

2

University of Alaska Fairbanks
Fairbanks, Alaska

#2 overall quality in Alaska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Alaska Fairbanks. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Theater Major in Alaska for a Bachelor’s. This medium-sized school is located in Fairbanks, Alaska, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s theater degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Drama & Theater Arts at UAF

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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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Donald Judge.