2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Kentucky

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Kentucky” 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 Kentucky, there were 169 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,023 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Kentucky” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in theater arts. That schools that top this list have a program in theater arts in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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

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

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

1

University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky

#2 overall quality in Kentucky

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Louisville. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Kentucky. Located in Louisville, Kentucky, this large public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s theater students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% 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%.

Read full report on Theater Arts at UofL

2

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

#1 overall quality in Kentucky

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kentucky. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in Kentucky. Lexington, Kentucky is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s theater degrees to 26 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Theater Arts at UK

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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.