2022 Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region

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 Value Musical Theatre Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region” 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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 306 musical theater graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 29 musical theater graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,733 and $16,201 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality musical theater 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 musical theater program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Musical Theater in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts

New York, New York

#1 in overall quality

$37,168 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts landed the #1 spot on the list. New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts is a small school located in New York, New York that handed out 29 associates’s musical theatre degrees in 2019-2020.

New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts also took the #1 spot in our “Best Musical Theater Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts is $37,168 for Middle Atlantic Region Associate Degree Musical Theatre students.

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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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