Bachelor’s degree · Initial professional preparation
BFA in Acting for Stage, Screen, and New Media
Michigan State University Department of Theatre · East Lansing, Michigan, United States
- Award
- BFA in Acting for Stage, Screen, and New Media
- Audience & level
- Adults
- Format
- In person
- Price
- $16,916per year, 2025-26
About this program
Four-year BFA in acting spanning stage, screen and new media, admitted competitively by audition.
- Offering
- Degree program
- Fields
- Theatre acting, Screen acting
- Purpose
- Initial professional preparation
- Teaching language
- English
Qualification and recognition
- Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree
- Exact award
- BFA in Acting for Stage, Screen, and New Media
- Award status
- Academic awardAwarded by a degree-granting institution.
- Awarding body
- Michigan State University
Structure and schedule
- Duration
- Not published
- Delivery
- In personTaught at the listed teaching location.
- Physical attendance
- Regular physical attendance
- Schedule
- Not published
- Teaching location
- Michigan State University
Admissions and auditions
Audition required
- Monologues
- Two contrasting memorized monologues, no longer than 3 minutes combined total, both from a contemporary (post-1960) play
- Self-tape
- Yes
- In-person audition
- Yes
- Audition detail
- In-person auditions on November 21, 2026 and February 20, 2027; live streaming auditions on February 6, 2027; one monologue live, the other on-camera; brief informal interview
- Interview
- Brief informal interview after the monologues
Fees
Original currency is authoritative. Each price keeps its basis (per class, per term, per year, whole program) and is never converted or added up for you.
| Item | Amount | Applies to | Dated |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estimated undergraduate tuition, in-state first-year (annual)Tuition · mandatory | $16,916per year, 2025-26 | In-state residents | 16 October 2026Source |
| Estimated undergraduate tuition, out-of-state first-year (annual)Tuition · mandatory | $44,300per year, 2025-26 | Out-of-state students | 16 October 2026Source |
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: duration, schedule, experience level.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 16 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 16 October 2026)