2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Acting in the Far Western US Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Acting Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Far Western US region, there were 611 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 45 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,689 and $18,419 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Acting Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the acting program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Acting Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Acting Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Acting in the Far Western US Region

#1

Academy of Art University

San Francisco, California

#1 in overall quality

$34,145 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Academy of Art University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Acting Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region list. Academy of Art University is located in San Francisco, California and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 7 associates’s acting degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our far western us region associate degree acting students list, Academy of Art University has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Acting Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” ranking. It costs about $34,145 for far western us region associate degree acting students per year to attend Academy of Art University.

Read more about Acting at Academy of Art University

#2

New York Film Academy

Burbank, California

#2 in overall quality

$45,280 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Acting Schools for an Associate in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New York Film Academy landed the #2 spot on the list. New York Film Academy is located in Burbank, California and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 21 associates’s acting degrees to qualified students.

New York Film Academy also made our “Best Acting Associate Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $45,280 for far western us region associate degree acting students per year to attend New York Film Academy.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 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%.

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

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