2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts in the New England Region
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Theater Arts is the 69th most popular major in the country with 11,561 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
Across the New England region, there were 650 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 31 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,606 and $42,101 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Theater Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in theater arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great theater arts programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the theater arts program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value Theater Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree theater students.
Top 6 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New England College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Theater Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region list. Located in Henniker, New Hampshire, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s theater students in 2019-2020.
NEC also took the #6 spot in our “Best Theater Arts Master’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 NEC are $15,764.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Theater Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region. Amherst, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s theater degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UMass Amherst, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Theater Arts Master’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 UMass Amherst are $32,341.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Connecticut. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Theater Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region. UCONN is located in Storrs, Connecticut and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 20 masters’s theater degrees to qualified students.
UCONN also took the #3 spot in our “Best Theater Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UCONN are $41,576, but some majors have different tuition rates.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tufts University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Theater Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region. Tufts University is located in Medford, Massachusetts and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 masters’s theater degrees to qualified students.
Tufts did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Theater Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Tufts are $55,168, but some majors have different tuition rates.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Smith College. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Theater Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region. Smith is a private not-for-profit institution located in Northampton, Massachusetts. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.
Smith also took the #4 spot in our “Best Theater Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Smith are $53,940, but some majors have different tuition rates.
Brown University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Theater Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region ranking. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 4 degrees to qualified masters’s theater students in 2019-2020.
Brown also took the #1 spot in our “Best Theater Arts Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Brown are $60,363, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
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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%.
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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.
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