2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts in the New England Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Theater Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 11,561 people earned their degree in theater arts, making the major the 69th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 650 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,889 and $109,372 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality theater arts programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the theater arts program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Theater Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Theater Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree theater students.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts in the New England Region

#1

Tufts University

Medford, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$55,168 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tufts University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Theater Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region list. Medford, Massachusetts is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s theater degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Tufts did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Theater Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Tufts University are $55,168, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Tufts Theater Arts Report

#1

Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$60,363 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brown University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Theater Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region list. Brown is a medium-sized school located in Providence, Rhode Island that handed out 2 doctorate’s theater degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Brown, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Theater Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Brown University are $60,363.

Full Brown Theater Arts Report

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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