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2022 Best Value Acting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k

4 Ranked Colleges
62 Degrees Awarded
$19,800 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Acting Schools for a Bachelor's in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Acting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Acting is the 319th most popular major in the country with 1,944 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Texas, there were 88 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 62 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Acting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in acting. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent acting programs, but they also cost less that 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 acting program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Acting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for texas bachelor’s degree acting students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Acting (Income $0-$30k) in Texas

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at Austin. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Acting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k. UT Austin is a public institution located in Austin, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UT Austin, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Acting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for UT Austin is $12,203 for texas bachelor’s degree acting students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Acting at UT Austin

#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Saint Edward’s University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Acting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k list. Saint Edward’s University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Austin, Texas. It awarded 15 bachelors’s acting degrees in 2019-2020.

St. Edward’s University also took the #4 spot in our “Best Acting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Saint Edward’s University is $19,126 for texas bachelor’s degree acting students whose families make $0-$30k.

Full St. Edward’s University Acting Report

#3

Texas Christian University

Fort Worth, Texas
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Acting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Christian University landed the #3 spot on the list. Texas Christian University is a fairly large school located in Fort Worth, Texas that handed out 11 bachelors’s acting degrees in 2019-2020.

TCU also took the #2 spot in our “Best Acting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” ranking. It costs about $21,286 for Texas Bachelor’s Degree Acting students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend TCU.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Acting at TCU

#4

Baylor University

Waco, Texas
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baylor University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Acting Schools for a Bachelor’s in Texas For Those Making $0-$30k list. This fairly large school is located in Waco, Texas, and it awarded 20 bachelors’s acting degrees in 2019-2020.

Baylor did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Acting Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Texas” list. The estimated yearly cost for Baylor is $26,726 for Texas Bachelor’s Degree Acting students whose families make $0-$30k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Acting at Baylor

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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