2024 Best Acting Associate Degree Schools in New York
3
Colleges in New York
195
Associate Degrees
an associate degree in
acting is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #198 out of 1020 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.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Acting Associate Degree Schools in New York ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 195 associate degrees in acting to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Acting School for Your Associate Degree
The acting associate 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
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of various 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 - How many other acting students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
- 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 schools for acting students working on their associate 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 Associate Degree Schools in New York.