2022 Best Value Acting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Acting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 1,944 people earned their degree in acting, making the major the 319th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 122 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 26 acting graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality acting programs that also have a lower cost than 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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Acting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

Best Value Acting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

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

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Acting in the Southwest Region

#1

KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts

Dallas, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$21,528 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Acting Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts landed the #1 spot on the list. KD Conservatory is a small school located in Dallas, Texas that handed out 26 associates’s acting degrees in 2019-2020.

KD Conservatory did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Acting Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts is $21,528 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Acting students.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts Acting Report

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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.

Credits

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

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