2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Musical Theater in Wisconsin

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for a Bachelor’s in Wisconsin” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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

Across Wisconsin, there were 12 musical theater graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 musical theater graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for a Bachelor’s in Wisconsin” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in musical theater. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality musical theater programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the musical theater program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for a Bachelor’s in Wisconsin

The colleges and universities below are the best for wisconsin bachelor’s degree musical theatre students.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Musical Theater in Wisconsin

#1

Viterbo University

La Crosse, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$19,992 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Viterbo University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for a Bachelor’s in Wisconsin list. La Crosse, Wisconsin is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s musical theatre degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.

Viterbo not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Musical Theater Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” list. The yearly cost to attend Viterbo is $19,992 for Wisconsin Bachelor’s Degree Musical Theatre students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Viterbo Musical Theater Report

#2

Carthage College

Kenosha, Wisconsin

#2 in overall quality

$28,191 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for a Bachelor’s in Wisconsin that were part of this year’s ranking, Carthage College landed the #2 spot on the list. Carthage is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Kenosha, Wisconsin. It awarded 1 bachelors’s musical theatre degrees in 2019-2020.

Carthage not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Musical Theater Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” list. It costs about $28,191 for Wisconsin Bachelor’s Degree Musical Theatre students per year to attend Carthage College.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full Carthage Musical Theater 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.

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

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