2022 Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Musical Theatre Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across the Southwest region, there were 87 musical theater graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 musical theater graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent musical theater programs, but they also 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 Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Musical Theater (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

#1

KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts

Dallas, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$25,441 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts landed the #1 spot on the list. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s musical theatre degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at KD Conservatory, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Musical Theater Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $25,441 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Musical Theatre students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Musical Theater at KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Musical Theater (Income $75-$110k)

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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