| Mary Anna...I do not have such a list but I wish to clarify that my reference in the above post had NOTHING to do with MT schools and I had written that the Ivy League schools pertained to my other D who is currently a soph in college and had written "not in MT" and used it as an analogy to her picking the schools that she liked best, not which were more prestigious. When narrowing her options down after all her acceptances came in, I was saying that she knocked off one of her Ivy League school acceptances (I am talking the real and only Ivy League as it is officially called, not a term that some may use here loosely with MT programs) and preferred two of her other schools over this one. I was saying she had reasons for those choices that contrasted with the Ivy League school she had gotten into that she opted to not attend.
As far as Ivy League schools for MT or theater.....the term Ivy League can only be loosely applied as the Ivy League consists of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Penn, Cornell, Columbia, and Dartmouth and is a football league.
I suppose you are asking about the "top" rated programs. I do not know of any rankings for this field (nor do I like school rankings anyway and never paid attention to them for my first daughter who had no clue where her schools ranked on USNews). If anyone knows of official rankings for MT BFA programs, I'd love to hear but none exists in an official list that I know of. What DOES exist are reputations and there are some MT programs that are often thought of as the "top programs in the field" though not necessarily in any particular order. I think most who read this forum know which ones as a loose group are often thought of in this regard to reputation. As an acting coach, I imagine you are also aware of which programs are considered the top ones in terms of reputation. There are a handful and some might dispute which are in that handful so I am not going to state the ones that I often hear of in that handful. I am not aware of any ranking of them, however. None are in the Ivy League.
Susan |