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2023 Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in New York

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$52,924 Avg Tuition & Fees*

Finding the Best Drama & Theater Arts Graduate Certificate School for You

With 266 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, drama and theater arts is the #82 most popular major in New York.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in New York ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in New York to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for theater students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in New York

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for theater majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best New York Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Drama & Theater Arts

#1

The Juilliard School

New York, NY

Our 2023 rankings named The Juilliard School the best value school in New York for drama and theater arts students working on their graduate certificate. Juilliard is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the city of New York.

Juilliard graduate students pay an average of $51,230 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Columbia University in the City of New York. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in New York list. Located in the large city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Columbia are $52,924 per year.

Columbia did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our Best Drama & Theater Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in New York list.

Read full report on Drama & Theater Arts at Columbia University in the City of New York

Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania 91
Maryland 9
New Jersey 22
District of Columbia 23

One of 9 majors within the area of study, drama and theater arts has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
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 2 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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