2025 Best Musical Theater Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
2Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
52Associate Degrees
Musical Theater isn't the most popular associate program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #462 in popularity out of 1020 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for musical theater students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 52 associate degrees in musical theater during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Earn the music business degree that fits into the business world – and partners Southern New Hampshire University with world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to musical theater students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of musical theater students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized musical theater related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for musical theater students working on their associate degree.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Musical Theater Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Earn the music business degree that fits into the business world – and partners Southern New Hampshire University with world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
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