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2023 Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Graduate Certificate Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

6 Colleges
$41,799 Avg Tuition & Fees*

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

In 2020-2021, 17,341 people earned a degree or certificate in drama and theater arts, making the major the #60 most popular in the United States.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

The Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Graduate Certificate Schools ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 6 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate 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.

2023 Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Graduate Certificate Schools in the United States

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Graduate Certificate Colleges.

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

Our 2023 rankings named Missouri State University - Springfield the best value school in the United States for drama and theater arts students working on their graduate certificate. Missouri State is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Springfield.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Missouri State are $12,618 per year.

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#2

The Juilliard School

New York, NY

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means The Juilliard School is a great value for drama and theater arts students working on their graduate certificate. Juilliard is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of New York.

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

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Connecticut is a great value for drama and theater arts students working on their graduate certificate. UCONN is a very large public school located in the suburb of Storrs.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UCONN are $42,237 a year.

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#4

Yale University

New Haven, CT

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Yale University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Graduate Certificate Schools list. Yale is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of New Haven.

Yale graduate students pay an average of $45,700 in tuition and fees each year.

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#5

Boston University

Boston, MA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Boston University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Graduate Certificate Schools list. Boston U is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Boston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Boston U are $59,418 per year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Boston U also did well on our Best Drama & Theater Arts Graduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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Columbia University in the City of New York landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate drama and theater arts programs. Located in the large city of New York, Columbia is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Columbia are $52,924 a year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Columbia also is in the top 15% of our Best Drama & Theater Arts Graduate Certificate Schools ranking.

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One of 10 majors within the area of study, drama and theater arts has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Theater

Related Major Annual Graduates
Fine & Studio Arts 37,413
Design & Applied Arts 36,301
Music 25,910
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 16,778
General Visual & Performing Arts 6,355

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 6 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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