Best Drama & Theater Arts Master’s Degree Colleges in Virginia

Unfortunately, there were no schools in Virginia that made our Best Drama & Theater Arts Master's Degree Schools in Virginia list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Drama & Theater Arts School for Your Master's Degree

The theater master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality theater 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 make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

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

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on drama & theater arts students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of drama & theater arts students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
• 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.
• Student Debt - How much debt drama & theater arts students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized drama & theater arts related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for drama & theater arts students working on their master's degree.

Insufficient Data for Virginia

Sadly , we do not have enough info to produce a ranking of the quality colleges for drama & theater arts in Virginia. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in Virginia that both offer drama & theater arts and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

Instead, check out at some of our other Drama & Theater Arts rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts ranking.

Best Drama & Theater Arts Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Drama & Theater Arts Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	208	61
Georgia	190	58
North Carolina	178	26
Tennessee	166	10
Alabama	151	14
Kentucky	147	4
Louisiana	147	14
South Carolina	146	14
Mississippi	145	13
Arkansas	121	4
West Virginia	112	5

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Drama & Theater Arts Related Rankings by Major

Drama & Theater Arts is one of 10 different types of Visual & Performing Arts programs to choose from.

Theater Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Theater Arts	80
Other Dramatic/Theatre Arts & Stagecraft	22
Playwriting & Screenwriting	10

Majors Similar to Theater

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Music	100
Design & Applied Arts	98
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	46
Fine & Studio Arts	46
Arts & Media Management	37
Dance	10
General Visual & Performing Arts	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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Donald Judge. More about our data sources and methodologies.