2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Theater Design & Technology (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Theater Design Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 1,261 people earned their degree in theater design and technology, making the major the 450th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southeast region, there were 350 theater design and technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 64 theater design and technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great theater design and technology 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 design and technology program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Value Theater Design Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Theater Design Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Theater Design Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Theater Design & Technology (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region

#1

Valencia College

Orlando, Florida

#1 in overall quality

$4,870 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Valencia College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Theater Design Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region For Those Making $0-$30k list. Valencia College is a large school located in Orlando, Florida that handed out 21 associates’s theater design degrees in 2019-2020.

Valencia College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Theater Design & Technology Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $4,870 for Southeast Region Associate Degree Theater Design students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Valencia College.

Read full report on Theater Design & Technology at Valencia College

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Theater Design & Technology (Income $0-$30k)

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.

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