Musical Theater is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #426 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Musical Theater Schools in Texas ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 44 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for musical theater schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Musical Theater Schools in Texas list to help you make the college decision.
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Earn the music business degree that fits into the business world – and partners Southern New Hampshire University with world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the musical theatre degrees they offer, see the list below.
Texas State University is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in musical theater. Texas State is a fairly large public university located in the small city of San Marcos. A Best Colleges rank of #396 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Texas State is a great university overall.
There were about 10 musical theater students who graduated with this degree at Texas State in the most recent data year.
Texas Christian University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in musical theater. TCU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Fort Worth. A Best Colleges rank of #112 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means TCU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 10 musical theater students who graduated with this degree at TCU in the most recent data year.
Earn the music business degree that fits into the business world – and partners Southern New Hampshire University with world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
Any student pursuing a degree in musical theater needs to take a look at Sam Houston State University. SHSU is a fairly large public university located in the distant town of Huntsville. This university ranks 18th out of 115 colleges for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were roughly 12 musical theater students who graduated with this degree at SHSU in the most recent data year.
It's difficult to beat West Texas A&M University if you want to pursue a degree in musical theater. West Texas A&M University is a medium-sized public university located in the town of Canyon. This university ranks 77th out of 115 schools for overall quality in the state of Texas.
There were about 6 musical theater students who graduated with this degree at West Texas A&M University in the most recent year we have data available.
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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Your choice of musical theater school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for musical theater schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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