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2022 Best Value Theater Schools for an Associate in Texas For Those Making $75-$110k

4 Ranked Colleges
114 Degrees Awarded
$14,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Theater Schools for an Associate in Texas 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 Theater Schools for an Associate in Texas For Those Making $75-$110k” 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 Texas, there were 921 drama and theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $21,079 and $24,294 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 114 drama and theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Theater Schools for an Associate in Texas For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in drama and theater arts. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent drama and theater arts programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the drama and theater arts program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Theater Schools for an Associate in Texas For Those Making $75-$110k

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

Top 4 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts (Income $75-$110k) in Texas

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Austin Community College District. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Theater Schools for an Associate in Texas For Those Making $75-$110k list. Austin Community College District is a large school located in Austin, Texas that handed out 3 associates’s theater degrees in 2019-2020.

Austin Community College District also took the #1 spot in our “Best Drama & Theater Arts Associate Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Austin Community College District is $11,596 for Texas Associate Degree Theater students whose families make $75-$110k.

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#2

San Antonio College

San Antonio, Texas
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend San Antonio College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Theater Schools for an Associate in Texas For Those Making $75-$110k. San Antonio College is a public institution located in San Antonio, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 associates’s degrees in 2019-2020.

San Antonio College also took the #2 spot in our “Best Drama & Theater Arts Associate Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. It costs about $10,977 for Texas Associate Degree Theater students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend San Antonio College.

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#3

South Plains College

Levelland, Texas
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South Plains College. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Theater Schools for an Associate in Texas For Those Making $75-$110k. Levelland, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s theater degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

South Plains College also made our “Best Drama & Theater Arts Associate Degree Schools in Texas” list, coming in at #4. The estimated yearly cost for South Plains College is $11,574 for texas associate degree theater students whose families make $75-$110k.

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Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Theater Schools for an Associate in Texas For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts landed the #4 spot on the list. KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts is a small private for-profit school situated in Dallas, Texas. It awarded 37 associates’s theater degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at KD Conservatory, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Drama & Theater Arts Associate Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. It costs about $25,441 for texas associate degree theater students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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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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