2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Directing & Theatrical Production in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Directing and Theatrical Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 256 people earned their degree in directing and theatrical production, making the major the 770th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 21 directing and theatrical production graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 directing and theatrical production graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Directing and Theatrical Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in directing and theatrical production. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great directing and theatrical production programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the directing and theatrical production program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Directing and Theatrical Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Directing and Theatrical Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Directing & Theatrical Production in the Southeast Region (With Aid)

#1

Anderson University South Carolina

Anderson, South Carolina

#2 in overall quality

$21,756 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Anderson University South Carolina. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Directing and Theatrical Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Anderson, South Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s directing and theatrical production students in 2019-2020.

Anderson University South Carolina also took the #2 spot in our “Best Directing & Theatrical Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Anderson University South Carolina is $21,756 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Directing and Theatrical Production students with aid.

Full Anderson University South Carolina Directing & Theatrical Production Report

#2

Lipscomb University

Nashville, Tennessee

#3 in overall quality

$24,749 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lipscomb University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Directing and Theatrical Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid. Lipscomb University is a small school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 2 bachelors’s directing and theatrical production degrees in 2019-2020.

Lipscomb did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Directing & Theatrical Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Lipscomb is $24,749 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Directing and Theatrical Production students with aid.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Directing & Theatrical Production at Lipscomb

#3

Belmont University

Nashville, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$35,548 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Directing and Theatrical Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Belmont University landed the #3 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Nashville, Tennessee, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s directing and theatrical production degrees in 2019-2020.

Belmont also took the #1 spot in our “Best Directing & Theatrical Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Belmont University is $35,548 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Directing and Theatrical Production students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Directing & Theatrical Production at Belmont University

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Directing & Theatrical Production (With Aid)

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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