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2023 Best Value Dance Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$37,306 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$22,613 Avg Salary

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 so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Dance Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones offered the best value programs for dance students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Dance Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Dance Colleges.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality in Dance

$21,475 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee to be the best value school for dance students who want to pursue a degree in the Great Lakes Region . UWM is a very large public school located in the large city of Milwaukee.

UWM undergraduate students pay an average of $21,475 in tuition and fees each year.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a great value for dance students. UIUC is a fairly large public school located in the city of Champaign.

UIUC undergraduate students pay an average of $37,632 in tuition and fees each year.

UIUC also took the #5 spot in our Best Dance Schools in the Great Lakes Region rankings.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Dance Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Ohio State is a very large public school located in the city of Columbus.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Ohio State are $35,019 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Dance Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. U-M is a very large public school located in the city of Ann Arbor.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at U-M are $55,097 per year.

In addition to its great value ranking, U-M is in the top 5% of all schools on our Best Dance Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

Full Dance at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Report

Best Dance Colleges by State

Explore the best dance schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 3
Illinois 3
Ohio 11
Wisconsin 8

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One of 9 majors within the area of study, dance has other similar majors worth exploring.

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 4 schools only.

  • 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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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