2024 Best Acting Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
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Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
17
Master's Degrees
a master's degree in
acting is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #437 out of 1172 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Acting Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 17 master's degrees in acting to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Acting School for Your Master's Degree
The acting master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality acting program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on acting students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of acting students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized acting related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for acting students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Acting Schools
The acting school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Acting Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region.