You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Carnegie Mellon University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Best Value Theatre/Theatre Arts Management Schools in Pennsylvania For Those Making $75-$110k list. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s theatre/theatre arts management degrees to 22 students in 2020-2021.
Carnegie Mellon also made our “Best Theatre/Theatre Arts Management Schools in Pennsylvania” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $31,094 for Pennsylvania Theatre/Theatre Arts Management students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Carnegie Mellon.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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