2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the New England Region
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 11,323 people earned their degree in theater arts, making the major the 70th most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 612 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,470 and $116,265 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in theater arts. That schools that top this list have a program in theater arts in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the New England Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree theater students.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tufts University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the New England Region. Located in Medford, Massachusetts, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 3 degrees to qualified doctorate’s theater students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read more about Theater Arts at Tufts University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brown University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Theater Major in the New England Region list. Brown University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Providence, Rhode Island. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 98%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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