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2023 Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Schools in West Virginia

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$7,784 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$19,345 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Drama & Theater Arts School for You

With 49 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, drama and theater arts is the #86 most popular major in West Virginia.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Schools in West Virginia ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in West Virginia to see which programs offered the best value experiences for theater students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Schools in West Virginia

Check out the theater programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best West Virginia Schools for Affordable Quality in Drama & Theater Arts

#1

Shepherd University

Shepherdstown, WV
$7,784 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found Shepherd University to be the best value school for drama and theater arts students who want to pursue a degree in West Virginia. Shepherd University is a small public school located in the town of Shepherdstown.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Shepherd University are $7,784 a year.

In addition to its great value ranking, Shepherd University is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Drama & Theater Arts Schools in West Virginia list.

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#2

West Virginia University

Morgantown, WV

The excellent programs at West Virginia University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best drama and theater arts schools in West Virginia. Located in the city of Morgantown, WVU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at WVU are $9,144 per year. After completing their degree, theater graduates from WVU carry an average student debtload of $19,875.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, WVU is ranked #5 for overall quality for theater in West Virginia.

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Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Drama & Theater Arts Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 453
Virginia 455
North Carolina 498
Florida 656
Tennessee 203
Kentucky 181
South Carolina 175
Louisiana 168
Arkansas 97
Alabama 147
Mississippi 64

One of 10 majors within the area of study, drama and theater arts has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Theater

Related Major Annual Graduates
Fine & Studio Arts 37,413
Design & Applied Arts 36,301
Music 25,910
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 16,778
General Visual & Performing Arts 6,355

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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