2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Acting (Income $0-$30k) in the Great Lakes Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 214 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 21 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,039 and $42,488 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in acting. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality acting programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the acting program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Acting (Income $0-$30k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Columbia College Chicago

Chicago, Illinois

#1 in overall quality

$2,350 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia College Chicago. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Columbia College Chicago is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 12 masters’s acting degrees to qualified students.

Columbia not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Acting Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Columbia are $2,350, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Acting at Columbia

#2

DePaul University

Chicago, Illinois

$19,760 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend DePaul University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Chicago, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s acting degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at DePaul, the school also landed the #0 spot in our “Best Acting Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at DePaul University are $19,760, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Acting at DePaul

• Best Value Master’s 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.

Credits

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

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