Drama and Theater Arts
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Early Career Income
$49,387
Lifetime Income
$2.67M
Unemployment rate
6.3%
Female share
60.8%
Occupation concentration
35.3%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
23.6%
% who double-major
28.8%
BA Graduates from 2024
12,218
-2.8% vs 2023
How Drama and Theater Arts compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
5th
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 5% of majors
1st
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 1% of majors
15th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 15% of majors
Top occupations
- Miscellaneous managers, including funeral service managers and postmasters and mail superintendents
- Actors
- Producers and Directors
See the Occupations and Industries tabs for full breakdowns, Double Majors for the most common second fields of degree, and Earnings for the trajectory by age, and Trends for degree production over time.
Degree titles included in this major
These detailed majors are included in the statistics for Drama and Theater Arts.
- Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General
- Technical Theatre/Theatre Design and Technology
- Playwriting and Screenwriting
- Theatre Literature, History and Criticism
- Acting
- Directing and Theatrical Production
- Musical Theatre
- Costume Design
- Comedy Writing and Performance
- Theatre and Dance
- Dramatic/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft, Other
- Theatre/Theatre Arts Management
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology