2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Musical Theater

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Musical Theater is the 489th most popular major in the country with 935 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 musical theater graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,398 and $43,194 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The musical theatre school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for a Master’s”.

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Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for a Master’s.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Musical Theater

#1

Berklee College of Music

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$44,408 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Berklee College of Music. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Musical Theatre Schools for a Master’s list. Located in Boston, Massachusetts, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 8 degrees to qualified masters’s musical theatre students in 2019-2020.

Berklee College of Music also made our “Best Musical Theater Master’s Degree Schools” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Berklee College of Music are $44,408, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Musical Theater at Berklee College of Music

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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