2022 Best Vallue Musical Theatre Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making Over $110k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Vallue Musical Theatre Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making Over $110k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 935 people earned their degree in musical theater, making the major the 489th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 87 musical theater graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 11 musical theater graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great musical theater 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 musical theater 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Vallue Musical Theatre Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making Over $110k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Vallue Musical Theatre Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making Over $110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region associate degree musical theatre students whose families make more than $110k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Musical Theater (Income Over $110k) in the Southwest Region

#1

KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts

Dallas, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$21,528 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts. The school came in at #1 for the Best Vallue Musical Theatre Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region For Those Making Over $110k. Located in Dallas, Texas, this small private for-profit school handed out 11 diplomas to qualified associates’s musical theatre students in 2019-2020.

KD Conservatory did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Musical Theater Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend KD Conservatory is $21,528 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Musical Theatre students whose families make more than $110k.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full KD Conservatory College of Film and Dramatic Arts Musical Theater Report

• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Musical Theater (Income Over $110k)

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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