2025 Best Acting Bachelor's Degree Schools in Massachusetts

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in acting, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #230 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Massachusetts to determine which ones were the best for acting students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 47 bachelor's degrees in acting during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to acting students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other acting students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized acting related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for acting students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Acting Bachelor's Degree Schools in Massachusetts list, to help you choose the best school for you.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Acting in Massachusetts

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in acting.

Top Massachusetts Schools for a Bachelor's in Acting

1

Emerson College
Boston, MA

13 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Emerson College if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in acting. Located in the city of Boston, Emerson is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a bachelor’s in acting from Emerson College

2

Boston University
Boston, MA

20 Annual Graduates

Boston University is a great option for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in acting. Boston U is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Boston.More information about a bachelor’s in acting from Boston University

Best Acting Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Acting Schools in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Connecticut	341	23
Vermont	289	0
New Hampshire	276	5

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Rankings in Majors Related to Acting

One of 11 majors within the Drama & Theater Arts area of study, Acting has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Majors Related to Acting

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Theater Arts	248
Musical Theater	71
Theater Design & Technology	30
Directing & Theatrical Production	26
Other Dramatic/Theatre Arts & Stagecraft	16

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Donald Judge. More about our data sources and methodologies.