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

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

Across Georgia, there were 277 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 23 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,186 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Georgia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in theater arts. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in theater arts.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Georgia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Georgia”.

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

1

Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Savannah College of Art and Design. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Georgia list. Savannah, Georgia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s theater degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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2

University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia

#3 overall quality in Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Georgia. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Georgia. Located in Athens, Georgia, this large public school handed out 13 degrees to qualified masters’s theater students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Donald Judge.