2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts in Connecticut

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

Across Connecticut, there were 132 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,328 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Connecticut” 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Connecticut

The colleges and universities below are the best for connecticut master’s degree theater students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts in Connecticut

1

University of Connecticut
Storrs, Connecticut

#4 overall quality in Connecticut

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Connecticut. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Connecticut list. This large school is located in Storrs, Connecticut, and it awarded 13 masters’s theater degrees in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Theater Arts at University of Connecticut

2

Wesleyan University
Middletown, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wesleyan University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Connecticut. Wesleyan U is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Middletown, Connecticut. It awarded 20 masters’s theater degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Wesleyan University Theater Arts Report

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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

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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