Western Illinois University

MTDad777
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:09:03 +0000

Sleepy - We are from Illinois and have never heard a good thing mentioned about Western’s program. If there was anything whatsoever good about the program my D would have auditioned there as the in-state cost is very reasonable. This school specializes in turning out good teachers and has an excellent Masters program for teachers. Also as mentioned the location does completely suck.

Regarding Ball State my D has a former classmate in the BA program there and another that just got in to the MT program. We have heard wonderful things about this school. My D received a call back from Ball State at Illinois Theatrefest and was considering auditioning but I confused the cost with another school (we were reviewing about 20 at the time) and thought it was way over priced (it is not) so we passed. Hopefully you can visit and attend a couple of classes, meet the faculty and talk to the students. My vote is Ball State.