2024 Best Theater Design & Technology Schools in California
3Colleges in California
187Theater Design Degrees Awarded
Theater Design & Technology is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #433 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for theater design & technology students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 187 degrees in theater design & technology during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Theater Design & Technology School
The theater design program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Theater Design & Technology rankings. For our Best Overall Theater Design & Technology School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Theater Design & Technology Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Theater Design & Technology Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Theater Design & Technology in California
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the theater design degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is hard to beat University of Southern California if you wish to pursue a degree in theater design & technology. USC is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Los Angeles. A Best Colleges rank of #11 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means USC is a great university overall.
There were approximately 10 theater design & technology students who graduated with this degree at USC in the most recent data year.
University of California - San Diego is a good option for students pursuing a degree in theater design & technology. UCSD is a very large public university located in the city of La Jolla. This university ranks 8th out of 168 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 4 theater design & technology students who graduated with this degree at UCSD in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in theater design & technology has to take a look at Pepperdine University. Located in the large suburb of Malibu, Pepperdine is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. This university ranks 16th out of 168 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were approximately 3 theater design & technology students who graduated with this degree at Pepperdine in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat California Institute of the Arts if you wish to pursue a degree in theater design & technology. Located in the large suburb of Valencia, CalArts is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
There were about 34 theater design & technology students who graduated with this degree at CalArts in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The theater design program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Theater Design & Technology rankings. For our Best Overall Theater Design & Technology School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
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