2024 Best Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Nebraska
3Colleges in Nebraska
104Theater Degrees Awarded
$22,825Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in drama & theater arts, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #59 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Nebraska to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of drama & theater arts. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 104 degrees in drama & theater arts during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of drama & theater arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Drama & Theater Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
The theater school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Nebraska.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don't forget it.
The schools below may not offer all types of theater degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It is hard to beat Nebraska Wesleyan University if you wish to pursue a degree in drama & theater arts. NWU is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Lincoln. This university ranks 8th out of 19 schools for overall quality in the state of Nebraska.
There were approximately 29 drama & theater arts students who graduated with this degree at NWU in the most recent year we have data available. After graduating, theater degree recipients usually make around $23,014 at the beginning of their careers.
Any student pursuing a degree in drama & theater arts needs to look into University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Located in the large city of Lincoln, UNL is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #138 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UNL is a great university overall.
There were roughly 35 drama & theater arts students who graduated with this degree at UNL in the most recent data year. Soon after graduation, theater degree recipients usually earn an average of $22,635 in the first five years of their career.
It is difficult to beat University of Nebraska at Omaha if you want to pursue a degree in drama & theater arts. UNOMAHA is a fairly large public university located in the city of Omaha. This university ranks 5th out of 19 schools for overall quality in the state of Nebraska.
There were about 12 drama & theater arts students who graduated with this degree at UNOMAHA in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
Credit for the banner image above goes to Donald Judge.
college factual
Your choice of drama & theater arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Drama & Theater Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
.jpg){kind=link}