2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Musical Theater in the Southwest Region
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Musical Theater is the 489th most popular major in the country with 935 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
Across the Southwest region, there were 87 musical theater graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 76 musical theater graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 7 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.
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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree musical theatre students.
Top 7 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Musical Theater in the Southwest Region
Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, West Texas A&M University landed the #1 spot on the list. West Texas A&M University is located in Canyon, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s musical theatre degrees to qualified students.
West Texas A&M University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Musical Theater Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $12,761 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Musical Theatre students per year to attend West Texas A&M University.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Sam Houston State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. SHSU is located in Huntsville, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 19 bachelors’s musical theatre degrees to qualified students.
SHSU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Musical Theater Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $14,617 for southwest region bachelor’s degree musical theatre students per year to attend SHSU.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas State University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in San Marcos, Texas, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s musical theatre degrees in 2019-2020.
Texas State also made our “Best Musical Theater Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for Texas State University is $15,230 for southwest region bachelor’s degree musical theatre students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Oklahoma. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. Located in Edmond, Oklahoma, this fairly large public school awarded 13 degrees to qualified bachelors’s musical theatre students in 2019-2020.
UCO did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #7 on our “Best Musical Theater Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of Central Oklahoma is $16,562 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Musical Theatre students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. University of Oklahoma Norman Campus is a public institution located in Norman, Oklahoma. The school has a large population, and it awarded 12 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at University of Oklahoma, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Musical Theater Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $21,145 for southwest region bachelor’s degree musical theatre students per year to attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
University of Arizona came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking. This large school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s musical theatre degrees in 2019-2020.
University of Arizona also took the #5 spot in our “Best Musical Theater Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Arizona is $15,016 for southwest region bachelor’s degree musical theatre students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
Texas Christian University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. TCU is a fairly large school located in Fort Worth, Texas that handed out 13 bachelors’s musical theatre degrees in 2019-2020.
TCU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Musical Theater Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Texas Christian University is $36,811 for southwest region bachelor’s degree musical theatre students.
The student loan default rate at the school is 3.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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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