2022 Best Value Theater Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

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 Theater Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Theater Arts is the 69th most popular major in the country with 11,561 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 2,419 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 14 theater arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,631 and $18,547 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great 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 theater arts program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The theater 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 Theater Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region”.

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Best Value Theater Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Theater Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Theater Arts in the Southeast Region

#1

John Tyler Community College

Chester, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$6,810 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend John Tyler Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Theater Schools for an Associate in the Southeast Region list. Located in Chester, Virginia, this medium-sized public school handed out 5 diplomas to qualified associates’s theater students in 2019-2020.

John Tyler Community College also took the #1 spot in our “Best Theater Arts Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend John Tyler Community College is $6,810 for southeast region associate degree theater students.

Read more about Theater Arts at John Tyler Community College

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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.

Credits

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

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