2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Musical Theater in Minnesota

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Musical Theatre Major in Minnesota” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Musical Theater is the 426th most popular major in the country with 995 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Minnesota, there were 6 musical theater graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 musical theater graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,071 and $28,140 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Musical Theatre Major in Minnesota” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in musical theater. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their musical theater program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Musical Theatre Major in Minnesota

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Musical Theatre Major in Minnesota”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Musical Theater in Minnesota

1

Minnesota State University - Moorhead
Moorhead, Minnesota

#24 overall quality in Minnesota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Minnesota State University - Moorhead. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Musical Theatre Major in Minnesota. This medium-sized school is located in Moorhead, Minnesota, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s musical theatre degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Musical Theater at MSU Moorhead

2

Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
Winona, Minnesota

#9 overall quality in Minnesota

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Musical Theatre Major in Minnesota. Located in Winona, Minnesota, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s musical theatre students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota Musical Theater Report

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St Catherine University
Saint Paul, Minnesota

#19 overall quality in Minnesota

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Musical Theatre Major in Minnesota that were part of this year’s ranking, St Catherine University landed the #2 spot on the list. Saint Paul, Minnesota is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s musical theatre degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Musical Theater at St. Kate’s

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.