This College Teaches Performing Artists How Not to Starve
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Coming in at number 60 on Money's list of Best Colleges of 2016 is University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the nation's first state-supported arts conservatory. Located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, UNCSA offers five different courses of study: dance, design and production, drama, filmmaking, and music. The school provide a high-quality arts education (alumni, who often return to UNCSA to teach, include Paul Tazewell, who won a Tony award for costume design for Hamilton). And the school provides that education at a relatively low price: The one-year cost of attendance for in-state students receiving financial aid amounts to $17,200, Money estimates.