2022 Best Value Acting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Acting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking.

Acting is the 319th most popular major in the country with 1,944 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 122 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 26 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great acting programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the acting program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Acting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Acting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Acting (Income $0-$30k) in the Southwest Region

#1

KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts

Dallas, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$19,345 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Acting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts landed the #1 spot on the list. KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts is a private for-profit institution located in Dallas, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 26 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

KD Conservatory not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Acting Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts is $19,345 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Acting students whose families make $0-$30k.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Acting at KD Conservatory

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Acting (Income $0-$30k)

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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• Credit for the banner image above goes to Donald Judge.

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