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

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

Across South Carolina, there were 158 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,605 and $0 respectively.

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

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

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

1

Bob Jones University
Greenville, South Carolina

#14 overall quality in South Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bob Jones University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in South Carolina list. Bob Jones University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Greenville, South Carolina. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% 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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2

University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, South Carolina

#2 overall quality in South Carolina

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Major in South Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Carolina - Columbia landed the #2 spot on the list. University of South Carolina - Columbia is a public institution located in Columbia, South Carolina. The school has a large population, and it awarded 10 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.

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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.