2025 Best Theater Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools in Maryland

Theater Arts is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #47 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Theater Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools in Maryland ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 106 bachelor's degrees in theater arts during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Bachelor’s Degree Schools List

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to theater arts students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of theater arts students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized theater arts related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for theater arts students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Theater Arts Bachelor's Degree Schools in Maryland list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don't forget it.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Theater Arts in Maryland

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in theater arts.

Top Maryland Schools for a Bachelor's in Theater

1

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD

38 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat University of Maryland - College Park if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in theater arts. Located in the suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in theater arts from University of Maryland - College Park

2

Towson University
Towson, MD

20 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat Towson University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in theater arts. Towson is a fairly large public university located in the city of Towson.More information about a bachelor’s in theater arts from Towson University

Best Theater Arts Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	707	1,076
Pennsylvania	698	374
New Jersey	351	176
District of Columbia	226	34

View All Rankings >

Rankings in Majors Related to Theater

One of 11 majors within the Drama & Theater Arts area of study, Theater Arts has other similar majors worth exploring.

Most Popular Majors Related to Theater

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Acting	31

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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.