[PhoenixAzul]

Carnegie Mellon is an amazing school for theater and performing arts (and fine arts for that matter!)...but it has a HUGE price tag. It's an amazing university though, and I'd venture to say you'd get a lot of bang for your buck.

Not to toot our horn, but Otterbein College (where I go) has a very competitive entry process for theater. Productions are always amazing, we have lots of graduates working on and off broadway. (The guy Lindsey Lohan has a crush on in Mean Girls went to Otterbein). Quiet town, cheap living in columbus, small campus, lots of opportunities to get involved, tons of student directed pieces, etc. Our Design Tech program here is amazing too, I've heard that several go on to design major productions.