2024 Best Accredited Online Colleges for Acting

ACTING DEGREES

UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

It is fairly rare to find an American majoring in acting. On average, each focus awards around 6,200 annual bachelor's degrees; 1,135 people earned undergrad degrees in acting last spring, making it the country's 204th most popular field. Marymount Manhattan College​ accounted for more of those degrees than any other school in the United States of America (99), and institutions in New York accounted for more degrees than any US State (221).

Choosing the right school for you may be tricky, because four-year degrees in acting are offered at 93 colleges across the country. At the undergraduate level, the typical major is 2.1 times more widely available than acting., making it the 180th most commonly available American major.

GRADUATE DEGREES

While 86% of last spring's degrees in acting were four-year degrees; 14% were postgraduate degrees. Acting is the 255th most popular grad degree in the nation, with 190 degrees conferred. For some context, acting is 93% less popular among postgraduate students than the average subject.

In Total, 1,325 students received a bachelor's or higher in acting last year.

ONLINE ACTING DEGREES

None of the students who were awarded undergraduate degrees or advanced degrees in acting last spring were conferred their degrees remote. Comprehensively online programs aren't even available at any U.S. colleges. ### PARTIALLY ONLINE ACTING DEGREES

• Acting is the 220th most pursued partially online four-year degree in the country
• Partially online undergrad degrees in acting are offered at 84 colleges in the nation
• Last spring, 183 people earned a bachelor's or higher in acting partially online
• Pace University​ granted the most partially online undergrad degrees in acting in the USA (22)
• Acting is the 302nd most popular partially online postgrad degree in the US
• 4.74% of all postgraduate degrees in acting are done partially online

IN-PERSON ACTING DEGREES

• Acting is the 179th most pursued in-person four-year degree in the nation
• Acting is the 173rd most commonly offered exclusively in-person undergraduate degree across the nation
• 84.41% of all college degree in acting are done entirely in-person
• Marymount Manhattan College​ conferred the most in-person four-year degrees in acting in the nation (89)
• The average field hands out 1,836 annual advanced degrees comprehensively in-person