2022 Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in New York For Those Making $30-$48k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in New York For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 1,944 people earned their degree in acting, making the major the 319th most popular in the United States.

Across New York, there were 480 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 23 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,029 and $47,933 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in New York For Those Making $30-$48k” 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in New York For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in New York For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Acting (Income $30-$48k) in New York

#1

The Juilliard School

New York, New York

$49,260 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in New York For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, The Juilliard School landed the #1 spot on the list. The Juilliard School is located in New York, New York and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 masters’s acting degrees to qualified students.

Juilliard also made our “Best Acting Master’s Degree Schools in New York” list, coming in at #0. Average graduate tuition and fees at Juilliard are $49,260, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#2

The New School

New York, New York

#1 in overall quality

$47,642 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The New School. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Acting Schools for a Master’s in New York For Those Making $30-$48k list. Located in New York, New York, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 15 degrees to qualified masters’s acting students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at New School University, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Acting Master’s Degree Schools in New York” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at New School University are $47,642, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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