Drama & Dance Education at East Carolina University

If you plan to study drama and dance education, take a look at what East Carolina University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

ECU is located in Greenville, North Carolina and approximately 28,798 students attend the school each year. Of the 383 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from East Carolina University in 2021, 3 of them were drama and dance education majors.

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

ECU Drama & Dance Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Drama Education

ECU Drama & Dance Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the drama education progam at ECU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The drama education major at ECU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Drama & Dance Education. 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Best Value Drama & Dance Education Schools	9
Most Popular Drama & Dance Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	15
	16
	22
Most Focused Drama & Dance Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	35

Drama Education Student Demographics at ECU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the drama education majors at East Carolina University.

ECU Drama & Dance Education Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of drama education bachelor's degrees went to men and 67% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 44% more racial-ethnic minorities in its drama education bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from East Carolina University with a bachelor's in drama education.

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

ECU also has a doctoral program available in drama education. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Health Occupations Teacher Education
• Family & Consumer Sciences/Home Economics Teacher Education
• English & Language Arts Education
• Art Education
• Music Education

Careers That Drama Education Grads May Go Into

A degree in drama education can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NC, the home state for East Carolina University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
High School Teachers	25,240	$47,580
Middle School Teachers	18,640	$47,050
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	2,860	$66,640
Education Professors	2,500	$66,990

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 Luca Masters under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.