2025 Best Comedy Writing and Performance Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois

If you're seeking a Bachelor's Degree in comedy writing and performance, you will have fewer peers than average since the major degree program is the #817 one in the country in terms of popularity.While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Comedy Writing and Performance Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 44 bachelor's degrees in comedy writing and performance during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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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 comedy writing and performance students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other comedy writing and performance students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's 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 comedy writing and performance related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for comedy writing and performance students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Comedy Writing and Performance Schools

The comedy writing and performance 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 Comedy Writing and Performance Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois.

To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Comedy Writing and Performance in Illinois

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in comedy writing and performance.

Top Illinois Schools for a Bachelor's in Comedy Writing and Performance

1

Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL

31 Annual Graduates

Columbia College Chicago is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in comedy writing and performance. Columbia is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit college located in the city of Chicago.More information about a bachelor’s in comedy writing and performance from Columbia College Chicago

2

DePaul University
Chicago, IL

13 Annual Graduates

DePaul University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in comedy writing and performance. DePaul is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Chicago.More information about a bachelor’s in comedy writing and performance from DePaul University

Best Comedy Writing and Performance Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Comedy Writing and Performance Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded

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Comedy Writing and Performance Related Rankings by Major

Comedy Writing and Performance is one of 11 different types of Drama & Theater Arts programs to choose from.

Most Popular Majors Related to Comedy Writing and Performance

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Theater Arts	354
Acting	129
Musical Theater	105
Theater Design & Technology	63
Theatre and Dance	17
Directing & Theatrical Production	8
Other Dramatic/Theatre Arts & Stagecraft	7
Playwriting & Screenwriting	4
Theatre Literature, History & Criticism	3

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). More about our data sources and methodologies.