2023 Most Well Attended Acting Major in the Southwest Region
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Acting Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Acting is the 323rd most popular major in the country with 1,793 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 117 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Acting Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in acting. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular acting programs in the United States.
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Most Well Attended Acting Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region acting students.
Top 8 Most Popular Colleges for Acting in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oklahoma City University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Acting Major in the Southwest Region. Oklahoma City University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. It awarded 40 ’s acting degrees in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Acting at OCU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Acting Major in the Southwest Region list. KD Conservatory is a private for-profit institution located in Dallas, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 22 ’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Read more about Acting at KD Conservatory
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baylor University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Acting Major in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in Waco, Texas, and it awarded 22 ’s acting degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Acting at Baylor
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Edward’s University. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended Acting Major in the Southwest Region. Austin, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s acting degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Acting at St. Edward’s University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Christian University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Acting Major in the Southwest Region list. Texas Christian University is a fairly large school located in Fort Worth, Texas that handed out 10 ’s acting degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Acting at Texas Christian University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at Austin. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Acting Major in the Southwest Region list. Austin, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out ’s acting degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.
Full UT Austin Acting Report
Oklahoma State University - Main Campus did quite well in the 2023 Most Well Attended Acting Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #7. OSU is located in Stillwater, Oklahoma and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 ’s acting degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Acting at Oklahoma State University - Main Campus
MediaTech Institute - Dallas landed the #7 spot on the 2023 Most Well Attended Acting Major in the Southwest Region ranking. MediaTech Institute - Dallas is a small private for-profit school situated in Dallas, Texas. It awarded 0 ’s acting degrees in 2020-2021.
Full MediaTech Institute - Dallas Acting Report
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Notes and References
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).
- 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.
- 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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