2022 Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 11,561 people earned their degree in theater arts, making the major the 69th most popular in the United States.

Across Mississippi, there were 51 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 43 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 $48-$75k” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in theater arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great theater arts programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the 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 a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts (Income $48-$75k) in Mississippi

#1

University of Mississippi

University, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$17,415 Average Net Price

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 $48-$75k. This large school is located in University, Mississippi, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s theater degrees in 2019-2020.

Ole Miss did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Theater Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” list. The estimated yearly cost for Ole Miss is $17,415 for mississippi bachelor’s degree theater students whose families make $48-$75k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Full University of Mississippi Theater Arts Report

#2

University of Southern Mississippi

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

#2 in overall quality

$18,285 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern Mississippi. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k. Located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, this fairly large public school handed out 19 degrees to qualified bachelors’s theater students in 2019-2020.

Southern Miss also made our “Best Theater Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $18,285 for mississippi bachelor’s degree theater students whose families make $48-$75k per year to attend Southern Miss.

Full University of Southern Mississippi Theater Arts Report

#3

Belhaven University

Jackson, Mississippi

#3 in overall quality

$16,772 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Belhaven University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k list. Located in Jackson, Mississippi, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 9 degrees to qualified bachelors’s theater students in 2019-2020.

Belhaven did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Theater Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” list. The estimated yearly cost for Belhaven University is $16,772 for Mississippi Bachelor’s Degree Theater students whose families make $48-$75k.

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 more about Theater Arts at Belhaven

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts (Income $48-$75k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Theater Arts (Income $48-$75k)

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Donald Judge.

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