2025 Best Drama & Dance Education Schools in New York
3Colleges in New York
27Drama Education Degrees Awarded
Drama & Dance Education is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #713 out of the 1506 majors across the country that we analyze each year. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of drama & dance education. Combined, these schools handed out 27 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for drama & dance education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Drama & Dance Education Schools in New York list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Drama & Dance Education in New York
The schools below may not offer all types of drama education degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It is hard to beat Hunter College if you wish to pursue a degree in drama & dance education. Hunter is a very 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 year we have data available.
Adelphi University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in drama & dance education. Adelphi is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Garden City. A Best Colleges rank of #183 out of 2,152 schools 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 year we have data available.
Niagara University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in drama & dance education. Located in the suburb of Niagara University, Niagara is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 66th out of 136 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were about 1 drama & dance education students who graduated with this degree at Niagara 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).
Your choice of drama & dance education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for drama & dance education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
