Bachelor’s degree · Initial professional preparation
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting for Stage and Screen
USC School of Dramatic Arts · University Park, Los Angeles, California, United States
- Award
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting for Stage and Screen
- Audience & level
- Adults
- Format
- In person
- Price
- $75,384per year, 2026-27
About this program
A competitive undergraduate acting degree combining stage and screen training within the University of Southern California's drama school.
- Offering
- Degree program
- Fields
- Theatre acting, Screen acting
- Purpose
- Initial professional preparation
- Teaching language
- English
Qualification and recognition
- Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree
- Exact award
- Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting for Stage and Screen
- Award status
- Academic awardAwarded by a degree-granting institution.
- Awarding body
- University of Southern California
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- Not published
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Full-time
- Teaching location
- USC University Park Campus (Dick Wolf Drama Center)817 W. 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Admissions and auditions
Audition required
- Monologues
- One classical monologue (written before 1900) and one contemporary monologue (written after 1900), each no longer than 90 seconds, memorized.
- Self-tape
- Yes
- In-person audition
- No
- Callback
- Yes
- Audition detail
- Two filmed monologues and a 90-second 'The Real Me' video are uploaded to SlideRoom as a pre-screen; selected applicants are invited to a Callback Weekend in mid-February with a virtual option.
- Deadlines
- The deadline to apply is December 1, 2026.
- Official instructions
- Application and audition instructions
Fees
Original currency is authoritative. Each price keeps its basis (per class, per term, per year, whole program) and is never converted or added up for you.
Funding
Admissions scholarships Scholarship
Competitive
Allocated by the admissions team based on merit and need
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: duration, experience level.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 16 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 16 October 2026)