2025 Best Playwriting & Screenwriting Schools in the Southeast Region
2Colleges in the Southeast Region
90Playwriting 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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for playwriting & screenwriting students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 90 degrees in playwriting & screenwriting to qualified students.
The playwriting and screenwriting 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 Playwriting & Screenwriting Schools in the Southeast Region.
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Best Schools for Playwriting & Screenwriting in the Southeast 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 Southeast Region Schools in Playwriting and Screenwriting
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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