2024 Best Drama & Theater Arts Schools in District of Columbia
3Colleges in District of Columbia
85Theater Degrees Awarded
$25,923Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in drama & theater arts is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #59 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in District of Columbia to determine which ones were the best for drama & theater arts students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 85 degrees in drama & theater arts during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The theater program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Drama & Theater Arts rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for drama & theater arts schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Drama & Theater Arts Schools in District of Columbia list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Drama & Theater Arts in District of Columbia
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the theater degree levels they offer.
George Washington University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in drama & theater arts. GWU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Washington. A Best Colleges rank of #49 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means GWU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 28 drama & theater arts students who graduated with this degree at GWU in the most recent data year. Soon after graduating, theater degree recipients usually make around $25,991 in the first five years of their career.
Catholic University of America is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in drama & theater arts. Located in the large city of Washington, CUA is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 5th out of 8 schools for overall quality in the state of District of Columbia.
There were roughly 16 drama & theater arts students who graduated with this degree at CUA in the most recent year we have data available.
American University is a great option for students pursuing a degree in drama & theater arts. The American University is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Washington. This university ranks 3rd out of 8 colleges for overall quality in the state of District of Columbia.
There were about 14 drama & theater arts students who graduated with this degree at The American University in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the theater program state that they receive average early career wages of $25,854.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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