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2022 Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska

6 Ranked Colleges
95 Degrees Awarded
$18,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor's in Nebraska

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Drama & Theater Arts is the 59th most popular major in the country with 18,124 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, drama and theater arts graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $21,403 and had an average of $26,932 in loans still to pay off.

Across Nebraska, there were 106 drama and theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $25,900 and $24,552 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 95 drama and theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,068 and $24,613 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska” ranking analyzed 6 colleges that offered a degree in drama and theater arts. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great drama and theater arts programs and cost less that 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 drama and theater arts program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska

The colleges and universities below are the best for nebraska bachelor’s degree theater students.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Drama & Theater Arts in Nebraska

#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska at Kearney. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska list. This medium-sized school is located in Kearney, Nebraska, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s theater degrees in 2019-2020.

UNK also took the #2 spot in our “Best Drama & Theater Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” ranking. It costs about $16,017 for Nebraska Bachelor’s Degree Theater students per year to attend University of Nebraska at Kearney.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Drama & Theater Arts at University of Nebraska at Kearney

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska - Lincoln landed the #2 spot on the list. UNL is located in Lincoln, Nebraska and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 34 bachelors’s theater degrees to qualified students.

UNL also made our “Best Drama & Theater Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $17,208 for Nebraska Bachelor’s Degree Theater students per year to attend UNL.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nebraska at Omaha. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska list. University of Nebraska at Omaha is a fairly large school located in Omaha, Nebraska that handed out 11 bachelors’s theater degrees in 2019-2020.

UNOMAHA not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Drama & Theater Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list. It costs about $14,040 for nebraska bachelor’s degree theater students per year to attend University of Nebraska at Omaha.

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#4

Wayne State College

Wayne, Nebraska
#6 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska that were part of this year’s ranking, Wayne State College landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Wayne, Nebraska, this small public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s theater students in 2019-2020.

WSC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #6 on our “Best Drama & Theater Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list. The yearly cost to attend Wayne State College is $13,765 for Nebraska Bachelor’s Degree Theater students.

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#5

Nebraska Wesleyan University

Lincoln, Nebraska

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Nebraska Wesleyan University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska. Lincoln, Nebraska is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s theater degrees to 20 students in 2019-2020.

NWU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Drama & Theater Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list. The estimated yearly cost for NWU is $23,847 for Nebraska Bachelor’s Degree Theater students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Drama & Theater Arts at Nebraska Wesleyan University

#6

Doane University

Crete, Nebraska

Doane University landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Theater Schools for a Bachelor’s in Nebraska ranking. Doane Crete is a private not-for-profit institution located in Crete, Nebraska. The school has a small population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Doane Crete did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Drama & Theater Arts Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list. The estimated yearly cost for Doane Crete is $26,507 for nebraska bachelor’s degree theater 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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