2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Musical Theater (Income $0-$30k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Musical Theatre Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Musical Theater is the 489th most popular major in the country with 935 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 306 musical theater graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 29 musical theater graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,733 and $16,201 respectively.

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

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the musical theater 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 Musical Theatre Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k

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

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Musical Theater (Income $0-$30k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts

New York, New York

#1 in overall quality

$37,897 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. New York, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s musical theatre degrees to 29 students in 2019-2020.

New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Musical Theater Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The yearly cost to attend New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts is $37,897 for Middle Atlantic Region Associate Degree Musical Theatre students whose families make $0-$30k.

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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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