2025 Best Musical Theater Associate Degree Schools in New York
2Colleges in New York
52Associate Degrees
Musical Theater is about average in terms of popularity for associate degrees programs. That is, it ranks #462 out of the 1020 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Musical Theater Associate Degree Schools in New York ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 52 associate degrees in musical theater to qualified students.
Earn the music business degree that fits into the business world – and partners Southern New Hampshire University with world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on musical theater students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other musical theater students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
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 colleges 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 New York 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).
by our College Data Analytics Team
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