2025 Best Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Kentucky
3Colleges in Kentucky
147Theater Degrees Awarded
$22,179Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in drama & theater arts is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #59 out of 395 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 3 schools in Kentucky to determine which ones were the best for drama & theater arts students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 147 degrees in drama & theater arts to qualified students.
The theater program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Drama & Theater Arts rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for drama & theater arts schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
The theater 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 Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Kentucky.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the theater degree levels they offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in drama & theater arts has to check out University of Kentucky. UK is a fairly large public university located in the city of Lexington. A Best Colleges rank of #220 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UK is a great university overall.
There were approximately 19 drama & theater arts students who graduated with this degree at UK in the most recent year we have data available. After graduation, theater degree recipients usually earn around $20,937 in the first five years of their career.
Any student pursuing a degree in drama & theater arts has to look into Northern Kentucky University. NKU is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Highland Heights. This university ranks 5th out of 39 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were approximately 50 drama & theater arts students who graduated with this degree at NKU in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the theater program report average early career income of $19,929.
Western Kentucky University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in drama & theater arts. Located in the small city of Bowling Green, WKU is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 6th out of 39 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were about 22 drama & theater arts students who graduated with this degree at WKU in the most recent year we have data available. After graduating, theater degree recipients generally earn an average of $22,884 at the beginning of their careers.
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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The theater program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Drama & Theater Arts rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for drama & theater arts schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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