Performing Arts Colleges in North Carolina

Duke University Arts

• Duke University offers programs in music, theater and dance. The music department offers an undergraduate major and minor in performance, as well as graduate programs leading toward masters and doctoral degrees in composition, musicology, music theory and performance. All music students have the opportunity to perform with the department's 9 ensembles. The dance department offers undergraduate majors and minors in dance with a focus on performance, choreography and dance history and theory. The Duke theater studies department offers undergraduate majors and minors with classes in acting, directing and dramatic writing. Duke University was ranked 10th in US News and World Report's 2010 ranking of national universities.

  Duke University
  Bivins Building
  Durham, NC 27708
  919-684-8111
  arts.duke.edu

University of North Carolina Department of Dramatic Art

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill College of Arts and Sciences contains the department of dramatic art. The department offers major and minor courses of study for undergraduates, with an emphasis on acting, theatrical design and production and stage and screen writing. The department also offers three-year Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree programs for graduate students in professional actor training, costume production and technical production.

  All performing arts students at UNC Chapel Hill have the opportunity to participate in theater productions with the school's PlayMakers Repertory Company. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill tied for 28th in US News and World Report's 2010 ranking of national universities.

  University of North Carolina Department of Dramatic Art
  CB # 3230, Center for Dramatic Art
  Chapel Hill, NC 27599
  919-962-1132
  drama.unc.edu

University of North Carolina at Asheville

• The University of North Carolina at Asheville functions as the state's public liberal arts university. The university's drama department offers an undergraduate major in drama, with an emphasis on acting, directing and theater design and technology. The department requires all drama degree candidates to prove their proficiency in a wide variety of areas by completing work within university productions. In addition to acting and directing, students must also work in set design, props, lighting, sound and costumes.

  University of North Carolina at Asheville
  One University Heights
  Asheville, NC 28804
  828-251-6600
  unca.edu/drama