Hello everyone. I was just wondering if anyone knew how many people get accepted into the BFA/BA MT programs of these schools:
Thank you!
These are rough numbers of Class Size in recent years (note that they may accept more to yield the class size or create a wait list to pull from). I copied it from an old post and didn’t check accuracy…
Pace MT (BFA): 31
Rider MT (BFA): 49
Emerson MT: 14
Hartt MT: (BFA) 23
New York University: Tisch NSB - 61,
NYU Steinhardt: 24
Point Park (BA/BFA MT) 35
UArts: (BFA) 20
Wagner College (BA MT): 30
How about:
Tx state
Tcu
Oklahoma
Alabama
Coastal
Michigan
Ball state
Otterbein
Penn state
CMU
FSU
Viterbo
Are these the numbers admitted or the number aimed for in the incoming classes? Many schools admit more than they intend to yield… ex. admit 60 to yield 30, admit 30 to yield 10, Admit 10 to yield 10 (with a priority waitlist), etc…
@KatMT I went with the class size. You are correct as the admitted number would likely be higher depending on the schools confidence in their yield.
Thank you @1998parent15! OP, are you asking to find out the incoming class size or to gather information for forming a balanced list of schools?
Search for “MT Admit Rates” in this section. It has more links and school info.
@1998parent15 thank you very much for the very informative answer! Such a great help.
@1998parent15 what about Marymount Manhattan and Montclair State University? (Both musical theatre? I know MMM has a BA and MSU has BFA)
@broadwaybabyyy From Marymount Manhattan’s website “On average, we make offers to 100 students for the BFA Acting Program, 100 students for the BA Theatre Arts Major with a Concentration in Theatre Performance, 70-75 students for the Musical Theatre Minor. For the non-performance concentrations in the BA Theatre Arts Major, we enroll approximately 30 students per year.”
@broadwaybabyyy Clay James is saying less than 3.5% admitted to Montclair BFA MT. Prior to this year they’ve had about 700 applications a year; this year I’m assuming more because of the in-state tuition.
Aargh I don’t want to hear that big number of applicants for Montclair! My D is really interested in that school. Loving the tuition too of course
At Rider’s information session at Unifieds, they said they have about 25-30 ish people in each MT class. They also specifically said that “the numbers on College Confidential are not correct”. So it’s definitely not as many as were listed up there!
I was also told the Rider number on this site is incorrect. 25 to 30. I think this year they were aiming for closer to 25.
@KatMT Thrilled to be wait listed at your school! Could you share your numbers? How many auditioned for MT, or both like my D, how many offered acceptance, how many wait listed and what size are you shooting for. I know a lot of info 
@Joyfulmama - I will PM you.
@Joyfulmama – I sent you a PM
Otterbein - 4 men and 4 women for MT and 4 men, 4 women for Acting (Class size. Not accepted/waitlisted numbers.) It seems like from what I’ve seen/heard this year, there seems to be more waitlisted people, but I can’t verify that.
TCU typically offers 10 girls and 10 boys in hopes of 5 of each accepting. They don’t offer more in case most accept bc the want to keep their numbers down
Rider is aiming for class of 30, evenly balanced Male/Female.