2023 Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Drama & Theater Arts Doctor's Degree School for You
Drama & Theater Arts is the #107 most popular major in the country with 1,699 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.
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The Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 5 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for theater students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.
When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.
Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
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2023 Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Doctor's Degree Colleges.
Best Middle Atlantic Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Drama & Theater Arts
Our 2023 rankings named The Graduate Center, CUNY the best value school in the Middle Atlantic Region for drama and theater arts students working on their doctor’s degree. The Graduate Center is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of New York.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at The Graduate Center are $23,640 a year.
The Graduate Center not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Drama & Theater Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list.
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Out of the 5 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus landed the # 2 spot on the list. Pitt is a fairly large public school located in the city of Pittsburgh.
Pitt graduate students pay an average of $42,024 in tuition and fees each year.
Out of the 5 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - College Park landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public college with a very large student population.
UMCP graduate students pay an average of $35,755 in tuition and fees each year.
UMCP excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Drama & Theater Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend New York University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. NYU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of New York.
NYU graduate students pay an average of $38,206 in tuition and fees each year.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, NYU also is in the top 15% of our Best Drama & Theater Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking.
The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Columbia University in the City of New York helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value drama and theater arts schools in the Middle Atlantic Region . Located in the city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Columbia are $52,924 per year.
On top of its placing in our value ranking, Columbia also did well on our Best Drama & Theater Arts Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.
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Best Drama & Theater Arts Colleges by State
Explore the best drama and theater arts schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic region.
State | Degrees Awarded |
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New York | 266 |
Pennsylvania | 91 |
Maryland | 9 |
New Jersey | 22 |
District of Columbia | 23 |
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Drama & Theater Arts Related Majors for Theater
One of 9 majors within the area of study, drama and theater arts has other similar majors worth exploring.
Majors Similar to Theater
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Music | 7,675 |
Fine & Studio Arts | 3,224 |
Design & Applied Arts | 1,979 |
Film, Video & Photographic Arts | 1,704 |
Arts & Media Management | 1,184 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 5 schools only.
- 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).
- Credit for the banner image above goes to Donald Judge.
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