Best Musical Theatre Schools based on Broadway Alumni

[OnWithTheShow]

There was a recent study posted on College Confidential (link below) that tabulates the MT programs that recent Broadway performers attended, using a wide variety of data sources (these are discussed in the post, as well as a lot of other interesting discussion). Overall the numbers seem to confirm the often referred to big 3 of UM, CMU, and CCM, followed by rapid up-and-comers Elon and Baldwin-Wallace, as well as usual suspects NYU, FSU, PSU, Ithaca, OCU, BoCo, etc. I've included 3 lists from the original post that list most alums as a function of how long ago they graduated, so it's interesting to see the relative movement of schools over the past 5 and 10 years. All 3 lists below are "normalized to a class size of 30" (as explained in original post).

Class of 2008 or later: Michigan 23, CCM 14, Elon 12, CMU 11, BaldwinW 9, Tisch 7, FloridaSt 6, Steinhardt 6, PennSt 6, MaryMan 5, Syracuse 4, Ithaca 4, AileyFord 3, Pace 3, BostonU 3, Juilliard 3, Indiana 2, StevensPt 2, Wesleyan 2, BoCo 2, UNCSA 2, Wagner 2, Fullerton 2, PointPark 2.

Class of 2003 or later: Michigan 45, CCM 35, CMU 32, Elon 20, BaldwinW 19, Tisch 19, FloridaSt 17, PennSt 13, Ithaca 13, OCU 11, Syracuse 11, BoCo 10, Juilliard 9, Steinhardt 9, AileyFord 9, MaryMan 9, NColorado 8, Indiana 6, Miami 6, UArts 6, Temple 6, BYU 6, Oklahoma 6, UNCSA 5, WrightSt 5.

All alumni (regardless of age): CCM 61, CMU 60, Michigan 56, Ithaca 38, Tisch 34, FloridaSt 30, Elon 23, BaldwinW 21, Juilliard 20, OCU 18, BoCo 17, PennSt 17, UCLA 17, Syracuse 15, MaryMan 14, Temple 14, Nwestern 14, UNCSA 13, NColorado 12, Fullerton 11, PointPark 11, Indiana 11, Miami 11, Steinhardt 11, AileyFord 10.




Link to original post at College Confidential

[OnWithTheShow]

I thought this list was interesting too. It lists the total number of shows of recent grads, split between "roles" and "ensemble". Unlike the above lists, this list does not normalize by class size, so large programs like Tisch and BoCo moved up relative to the others.

Shows/School/Roles/Ensemble
47 Michigan 9 38
44 Tisch 18 26
28 CCM 9 19
22 BoCo 4 18
20 CMU 17 3
18 Elon 3 15
13 Syracuse 6 7
13 AileyFord 0 13
12 Ithaca 8 4
12 OCU 4 8
12 BaldwinW 3 9
10 Juilliard 1 9
9 PennSt 2 7
8 AMDA 3 5
8 FloridaSt 2 6
8 Wagner 2 6
8 Steinhardt 3 5
7 PointPark 2 5
7 MaryMan 5 2
7 Miami 1 6
6 UNCSA 2 4
6 BYU 1 5
5 NColorado 1 4
5 Irvine 5 0
5 UArts 2 3
5 Indiana 4 1
4 Temple 3 1
4 Millikin 1 3
4 StevensPt 3 1
4 Harvard 0 4
3 Nwestern 2 1
3 USC 2 1
3 Fullerton 1 2
3 Shenandoah 1 2
3 BostonU 2 1
3 Oklahoma 0 3
3 WrightSt 1 2
3 Pace 0 3