She attended the prestigious Cincinnati School for the Creative and Performing Arts alongside pop-culture alums Carmen Electra and Nick & Drew Lachey.
Carruthers and her family moved from West Chester Township to Cincinnati so that Mia could enroll at the School for Creative and Performing Arts (S.C.P.A.) as a freshman, majoring in music.
In 1981, Carroll graduated from the famed School for Creative and Performing Arts SCPA in Cincinnati Ohio, in the Cincinnati Public School District.
Bachelor of Arts | high school | Harvard Business School | London School of Economics | Harvard Medical School | Master of Arts (postgraduate) | National Endowment for the Arts | secondary school | Harvard Law School | Master of Arts | Eastman School of Music | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Electronic Arts | Creative Commons | Juilliard School | Public school (government funded) | High School Musical | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Gymnasium (school) | Yale Law School | Rugby School | school district | high school football | public school | school | New York University School of Law | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences | Westminster School | Tisch School of the Arts | mixed martial arts |