2025 Best Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Rhode Island
3Colleges in Rhode Island
69Theater Degrees Awarded
$22,179Avg Early-Career Salary
Drama & Theater Arts is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #59 most popular degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Rhode Island ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 69 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. For our Best Overall Drama & Theater Arts School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that 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.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Rhode Island ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Drama & Theater Arts in Rhode Island
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 theater degrees they offer, see the list below.
Brown University is a good choice for students interested in a degree in drama & theater arts. Brown is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Providence. A Best Colleges rank of #26 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Brown is a great university overall.
There were about 25 drama & theater arts students who graduated with this degree at Brown in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in drama & theater arts has to look into Rhode Island College. RIC is a medium-sized public college located in the large suburb of Providence. This college ranks 6th out of 9 colleges for overall quality in the state of Rhode Island.
There were about 18 drama & theater arts students who graduated with this degree at RIC in the most recent data year. Those drama & theater arts students who get their degree from Rhode Island College earn $2,347 more than the standard theater grad.
Every student who is interested in drama & theater arts needs to take a look at University of Rhode Island. URI is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Kingston. This university ranks 5th out of 9 schools for overall quality in the state of Rhode Island.
There were approximately 13 drama & theater arts students who graduated with this degree at URI in the most recent data year. Graduates who receive their degree from the theater program make around $19,551 for their early career.
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 drama & theater arts school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Drama & Theater Arts School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
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