2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Design Major in the Plains States Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Design Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2021-2022, 1,072 people earned their degree in theater design & technology, making the major the 433rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 35 theater design & technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 16 theater design & technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,858 and $37,352 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Design Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in theater design & technology. That schools that top this list have a program in theater design & technology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Design Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree theater design students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Theater Design & Technology in the Plains States Region

1

University of Missouri - Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Design Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Missouri - Kansas City landed the #1 spot on the list. UMKC is a fairly large school located in Kansas City, Missouri that handed out 13 masters’s theater design degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full UMKC Theater Design & Technology Report

2

University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa

#9 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Theater Design Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Iowa landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Iowa City, Iowa, this large public school handed out 3 degrees to qualified masters’s theater design students in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Theater Design & Technology at University of Iowa

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

Footnotes

• *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.

Credits

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