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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts (Income $30-$48k) in Mississippi

3 Ranked Colleges
43 Degrees Awarded
$14,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor's in Mississippi For Those Making $30-$48k

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 Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Drama & Theater Arts is the 59th most popular major in the country with 18,124 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, drama and theater arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $21,403 and had an average of $26,932 in loans still to pay off.

Across Mississippi, there were 53 drama and theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $24,350 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 43 drama and theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,851 and $25,430 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in drama and theater arts. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality drama and theater arts programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the drama and theater arts program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for mississippi bachelor’s degree theater students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts (Income $30-$48k) in Mississippi

#1

University of Mississippi

University, Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Mississippi. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $30-$48k. University of Mississippi is a public institution located in University, Mississippi. The school has a large population, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Ole Miss not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Drama & Theater Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” list. It costs about $11,566 for Mississippi Bachelor’s Degree Theater students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend University of Mississippi.

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 more about Drama & Theater Arts at Ole Miss

#2

University of Southern Mississippi

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Mississippi landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Southern Mississippi is a fairly large school located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi that handed out 19 bachelors’s theater degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our mississippi bachelor’s degree theater students whose families make $30-$48k list, Southern Miss has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Drama & Theater Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Southern Miss is $13,373 for mississippi bachelor’s degree theater students whose families make $30-$48k.

Full University of Southern Mississippi Drama & Theater Arts Report

#3

Belhaven University

Jackson, Mississippi
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Belhaven University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $30-$48k. Located in Jackson, Mississippi, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 9 degrees to qualified bachelors’s theater students in 2019-2020.

Belhaven also took the #3 spot in our “Best Drama & Theater Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” ranking. It costs about $17,461 for Mississippi Bachelor’s Degree Theater students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Belhaven University.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Drama & Theater Arts at Belhaven University

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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%.

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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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