2023 Best Dance Schools
Finding the Best Dance School for You
Dance is the #214 most popular major in the country with 257 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.
There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.
The Best Dance Schools ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 35 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best programs for students.
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2023 Best Dance Schools in the United States
The following schools top our list of the Best Dance Colleges.
Top 10 Best Dance Schools
Our 2023 rankings named Duke University the best school in the United States for dance students. Located in the city of Durham, Duke is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend New York University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Dance Schools list. Located in the city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.
Out of the 35 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Woman’s University landed the # 3 spot on the list. TWU is a large public school located in the city of Denton.
The excellent programs at University of Iowa helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best dance schools in the United States. Iowa is a fairly large public school located in the city of Iowa City.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sam Houston State University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Dance Schools list. Located in the town of Huntsville, SHSU is a public college with a very large student population.
University of Washington - Seattle Campus ranked #6 on this year’s Best Dance Schools list. UW Seattle is a very large public school located in the large city of Seattle.
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Ohio State University - Main Campus came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Dance Schools ranking. Located in the city of Columbus, Ohio State is a public college with a fairly large student population.
Tulane University of Louisiana did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best schools for dance students. It came in at #8 on the list. Tulane is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of New Orleans.
University of California - Irvine came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Dance Schools ranking. Located in the city of Irvine, UC Irvine is a public school with a fairly large student population.
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best schools for dance students. It came in at #10 on the list. Located in the city of Champaign, UIUC is a public school with a very large student population.
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Rankings in Majors Related to Dance
Dance is one of 9 different types of programs to choose from.
Majors Similar to Dance
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Music | 7,675 |
| Fine & Studio Arts | 3,224 |
| Design & Applied Arts | 1,979 |
| Film, Video & Photographic Arts | 1,704 |
| Drama & Theater Arts | 1,699 |
Notes and References
*These averages are for the top 25 schools only.
- Read more about our ranking methodology.
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Credit for the banner image above goes to Jazzart Dance Theatre.
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