Acting - programs with a range of selectivities

A good source of information will be the site for Unified Auditions: www.unifiedauditions.com

and an article in the NYTimes Education section last spring gives some helpful supplementary information.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/education/edlife/theater.html?_r=1&ref=edlife&oref=slogin

Students are probably already aware that many performance-based programs are competitive (after all, the careers themselves require constant auditions).

For a comprehensive list of schools that offer acting as a major, run a search via our Find Colleges By Major page.

Vancouver Film School has a diploma program in acting for film and television: https://vfs.edu/programs/acting

BFA programs with a range of selectivity:

Chapman (CA)

College of Santa Fe (NM)

Drake (now requires audition)

Elon

Evansville

Illinois

Illinois Wesleyan

Indiana

Kent State

Marietta

Marymount Manhattan

Millikin (IL)

Montana

Naropa (Colo)

Oklahoma

Pace (NY)

Point Park (Pittsburgh, PA)

Rhode Island

Roosevelt (Chicago)

Shenandoah Conservatory (VA)

SUNY Buffalo

SUNY Fredonia

U Colorado - Boulder

U of Maryland

U of Minnesota Duluth

UArts (PA)

UConn

UC-Santa Barbara

UMiami

University of Central Florida

University of Hartford - Hartt

Utah

Viterbo (Wisconsin)

Webster

West Virginia

Western Michigan

Wright State (Ohio)

Wyoming

BA programs with theater:

Bard (NY)

Bates (ME)

Boston College (MA)

Brown University (RI)

Carthage College (Wisconsin, near Chicago) Web Page

Connecticut College

Denison (OH)

Drew (NJ) 

Fordham University (NY)

Franklin & Marshall (PA)

Hamilton (NY)

Hampshire College (MA)

Hofstra University (NY)

Holy Cross (MA)

Kenyon College (OH)

Macalester (MN)

Muhlenberg College (PA)

Northwestern University (IL)

Samford (AL)

Sarah Lawrence College (NY)

Skidmore College (NY)

Smith College (MA)

Vassar College (NY)

Wagner College (NY)

Webster (MO)

Wesleyan University (CT)

Williams College (MA)

Yale University (CT)

Thanks to Jane Ross in NYC for her initial compilation of these lists.