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2023 Most Popular Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Mississippi

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$27,997 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Drama & Theater Arts School for You

In 2020-2021, 13 degrees and certificates were awarded to drama and theater arts students who went to a Mississippi college or university. This makes it the #66 most popular major in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Most Popular Drama & Theater Arts Schools in Mississippi to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Mississippi to see which ones were the most popular programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Drama & Theater Arts program at each school on the list.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for theater majors pursuing a .

Our 2023 rankings named University of Southern Mississippi the most popular school in Mississippi for drama and theater arts students. Located in the small city of Hattiesburg, Southern Miss is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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The excellent programs at Mississippi University for Women helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best drama and theater arts schools in Mississippi. MUW is a small public school located in the remote town of Columbus.

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Best Drama & Theater Arts Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Most Popular Drama & Theater Arts Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 81
Florida 63
Georgia 60
North Carolina 26
Tennessee 10
Kentucky 4
Louisiana 15
Alabama 14
South Carolina 14
Arkansas 4
West Virginia 5

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
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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