| Mo State - I guess is the one that used to be called SW Mo State. I've seen a couple of people perform who graduated from there and who did a good job. I seem to remember early in the process of a college search, that they were also negative about the prospects of the business in the written material (may have been a web site).
IU - I just bumped up a previous thread with info. about their brand new MT program that will combine the theatre and music dept's and will be audition based. They have not previously offered MT at IU. Their vocal performance program is already based on auditions and has a fabulous reputation. Their theatre dept. is very good. We saw a play there and my son attended an acting class. We were impressed with the play and my son enjoyed the class. From all the schools we visited, I believe that IU had the nicest theatre facilities. The entire campus is beautiful.
To answer the MT questions you have, there has not been an MT major in the past, so there is nothing on which to base answers to the questions about this brand new program. I'm sure all the right elements are there to make for a top notch MT program, pulling from the various good dept's already on campus.
My son applied and was accepted for college at IU with a nice academic scholarship. He would have done the BA in theatre there and could have added music and dance in the independent study major. The MT major wasn't available for this year's incoming freshmen. He thinks he would have been very happy there if he had not gotten into one of the audition based MT programs. I hate to refer to it as a safety because it was too impressive to us to really be called a safety. |