2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Directing & Theatrical Production in the New England Region
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In 2019-2020, 256 people earned their degree in directing and theatrical production, making the major the 770th most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 27 directing and theatrical production graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 18 directing and theatrical production graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Directing and Theatrical Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in directing and theatrical production. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality directing and theatrical production programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the directing and theatrical production 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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Best Value Directing and Theatrical Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Directing and Theatrical Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region.
Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Directing & Theatrical Production in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Keene State College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Directing and Theatrical Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region. Keene State College is a small school located in Keene, New Hampshire that handed out 3 bachelors’s directing and theatrical production degrees in 2019-2020.
Keene State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Directing & Theatrical Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Keene State College is $19,394 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Directing and Theatrical Production students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Berklee College of Music. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Directing and Theatrical Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region. Berklee College of Music is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Boston, Massachusetts. It awarded 5 bachelors’s directing and theatrical production degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Berklee College of Music, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Directing & Theatrical Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. It costs about $49,514 for new england region bachelor’s degree directing and theatrical production students per year to attend Berklee College of Music.
With a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Emerson College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Directing and Theatrical Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s directing and theatrical production degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.
Emerson did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Directing & Theatrical Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Emerson is $45,365 for new england region bachelor’s degree directing and theatrical production students.
The student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boston University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Directing and Theatrical Production Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s directing and theatrical production degrees to 4 students in 2019-2020.
Boston U also made our “Best Directing & Theatrical Production Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Boston U is $30,259 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Directing and Theatrical Production students.
The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 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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