2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts in the Southwest Region

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Theater Arts is the 70th most popular major in the country with 11,385 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,089 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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 Southwest Region

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

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts in the Southwest Region

1

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Austin landed the #1 spot on the list. Austin, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s theater degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Theater Arts at UT Austin

2

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #2 spot on the list. ASU - Tempe is a large school located in Tempe, Arizona that handed out 1 doctorate’s theater degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full ASU - Tempe Theater Arts Report

• Most Focused 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

• *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.

Credits

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