Theatre Production and Design - how did you make your selection?

Since we haven’t had the opportunity to visit any colleges this year (keeping our fingers crossed for spring) we are looking for some opinions about theatre tech schools. For parents or students who have made their decisions or are already attending college, what were your final deciding factors? Below are the schools my D is looking at. As you all know some of these we won’t hear from until March so at that point decisions may be made for her. I’d like to hear about your selection process even if it was to a school not listed:

Catawba
Salem State
Depaul
Baldwin Wallace
Otterbein
Ithaca
Purchase
UNCSA

Any help would be appreciated. We live in NM, so all these places are very foreign to us.