2025 Best Playwriting & Screenwriting Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
7Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
216Playwriting and Screenwriting Degrees Awarded
A degree in playwriting & screenwriting is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #521 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 7 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Playwriting & Screenwriting Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 216 degrees in playwriting & screenwriting annually.
Choosing a Great Playwriting & Screenwriting School
Your choice of playwriting & screenwriting school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for playwriting & screenwriting schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Playwriting & Screenwriting Rankings by Degree Level
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Playwriting & Screenwriting Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Playwriting & Screenwriting in the Middle Atlantic Region
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the playwriting and screenwriting degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools in Playwriting and Screenwriting
New York University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in playwriting & screenwriting. NYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of New York. A Best Colleges rank of #16 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means NYU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 109 playwriting & screenwriting students who graduated with this degree at NYU in the most recent year we have data available.
Carnegie Mellon University is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in playwriting & screenwriting. Carnegie Mellon is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Pittsburgh. A Best Colleges rank of #8 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Carnegie Mellon is a great university overall.
There were approximately 3 playwriting & screenwriting students who graduated with this degree at Carnegie Mellon in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat Purchase College if you want to pursue a degree in playwriting & screenwriting. Located in the suburb of Purchase, Purchase College is a public college with a small student population. This college ranks 53rd out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were approximately 45 playwriting & screenwriting students who graduated with this degree at Purchase College in the most recent data year.
Marymount Manhattan College is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in playwriting & screenwriting. Located in the city of New York, MMC is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 35th out of 136 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were roughly 10 playwriting & screenwriting students who graduated with this degree at MMC in the most recent data year.
UArts is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Philadelphia.
There were approximately 1 playwriting & screenwriting students who graduated with this degree at UArts in the most recent year we have data available.
Hunter is a very large public college located in the city of New York. This college ranks 30th out of 136 schools for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were approximately 4 playwriting & screenwriting students who graduated with this degree at Hunter in the most recent data year.
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).
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Your choice of playwriting & screenwriting school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for playwriting & screenwriting schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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