A degree in musical theater is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #426 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of musical theater. Combined, these schools handed out 76 degrees in musical theater to qualified students.
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Your choice of musical theater school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Musical Theater School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Musical Theater Schools in Pennsylvania ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the musical theatre degree levels they offer.
Temple University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in musical theater. Temple is a fairly large public university located in the city of Philadelphia.
There were roughly 17 musical theater students who graduated with this degree at Temple in the most recent data year.
Any student who is interested in musical theater has to check out The University of the Arts. UArts is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Philadelphia.
There were about 31 musical theater students who graduated with this degree at UArts in the most recent year we have data available.
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Point Park University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in musical theater. Point Park is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Pittsburgh.
There were roughly 24 musical theater students who graduated with this degree at Point Park in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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