2023 Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Theater for a Doctorate
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Theater for a Doctorate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 11,385 people earned their degree in theater arts, making the major the 70th most popular in the United States.
Across Massachusetts, there were 326 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great theater arts programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the theater arts program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Theater for a Doctorate
The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts doctor’s degree vets studying theater.
Top 1 Best Theater Arts Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in Massachusetts
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tufts University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Veteran Friendly in Massachusetts for Theater for a Doctorate. Tufts University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Medford, Massachusetts. It awarded 2 doctorate’s theater degrees in 2020-2021.
Tufts also made our “Best Theater Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list, coming in at #1.Our most recent data shows that 1 of the 12,219 students enrolled at Tufts University were GI Bill® students, of which 0 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $0. During this same period, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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 impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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.
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