2025 Best Drama & Dance Education Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
3Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
41Drama Education Degrees Awarded
When it comes to popularity, drama & dance education sits in the middle of the road, ranking #713 out of 1506 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for drama & dance education students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 41 degrees in drama & dance education to qualified students.
Your choice of drama & dance education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Drama & Dance Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Drama & Dance Education Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Drama & Dance Education in the Middle Atlantic Region
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 drama education degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools in Drama Education
Hunter College is a wonderful option for students interested in a degree in drama & dance education. Hunter is a fairly large public college located in the large city of New York. This college ranks 30th out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 8 drama & dance education students who graduated with this degree at Hunter in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in drama & dance education needs to look into Adelphi University. Adelphi is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Garden City. A Best Colleges rank of #183 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Adelphi is a great university overall.
There were about 7 drama & dance education students who graduated with this degree at Adelphi in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in drama & dance education has to check out Niagara University. Located in the large suburb of Niagara University, Niagara is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 66th out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 1 drama & dance education students who graduated with this degree at Niagara in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
Your choice of drama & dance education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Drama & Dance Education School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
