2025 Best Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Mississippi
3Colleges in Mississippi
61Theater Degrees Awarded
$22,179Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in drama & theater arts, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #59 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Mississippi to determine which ones were the best for drama & theater arts students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 61 degrees in drama & theater arts annually.
Your choice of drama & theater arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Drama & Theater Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Mississippi list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Best Schools for Drama & Theater Arts in Mississippi
The schools below may not offer all types of theater degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Mississippi is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in drama & theater arts. Located in the town of University, Ole Miss is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #550 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Ole Miss is a great university overall.
There were about 16 drama & theater arts students who graduated with this degree at Ole Miss in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat University of Southern Mississippi if you wish to pursue a degree in drama & theater arts. Southern Miss is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Hattiesburg. This university ranks 8th out of 24 schools for overall quality in the state of Mississippi.
There were about 28 drama & theater arts students who graduated with this degree at Southern Miss in the most recent data year.
Belhaven University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in drama & theater arts. Belhaven is a small private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Jackson. This university ranks 11th out of 24 colleges for overall quality in the state of Mississippi.
There were roughly 6 drama & theater arts students who graduated with this degree at Belhaven in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the theater program make about $19,931 in their early career salary.
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.
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Your choice of drama & theater arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Drama & Theater Arts School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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