2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts in the New England Region
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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 “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Theater Arts is the 70th most popular major in the country with 11,385 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the New England region, there were 654 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 $78,293 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in theater arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their theater arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the New England Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts in the New England Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tufts University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the New England Region list. Tufts is a private not-for-profit institution located in Medford, Massachusetts. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brown University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the New England Region. Brown University is a fairly large school located in Providence, Rhode Island that handed out 1 doctorate’s theater degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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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
- *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.
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