Acting at University of Connecticut

If you plan to study acting, take a look at what University of Connecticut has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UCONN is located in Storrs, Connecticut and approximately 27,215 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Acting section at the bottom of this page.

UCONN Acting Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Acting

UCONN Acting Rankings

The acting major at UCONN is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Acting. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Acting Student Demographics at UCONN

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the acting majors at University of Connecticut.

UCONN Acting Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 63% of acting bachelor's degrees went to men and 38% went to women. The typical acting bachelor's degree program is made up of only 42% men. So male students are more repesented at UCONN since its program graduates 21% more men than average.

About 63% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in acting at UCONN are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Connecticut with a bachelor's in acting.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Other Dramatic/Theatre Arts & Stagecraft
• Theater Design & Technology
• Theater Arts

Careers That Acting Grads May Go Into

A degree in acting can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CT, the home state for University of Connecticut.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Daderot under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.