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2023 Best Value Dance Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$36,339 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$33,301 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Dance Master's Degree 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Dance Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones offered the best value master's degree 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 Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Dance Master's Degree Colleges.

Best Great Lakes Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Dance

Our 2023 rankings named University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for dance students working on their master’s degree. UWM is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Milwaukee.

UWM graduate students pay an average of $25,651 in tuition and fees each year.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value dance schools in the Great Lakes Region . UIUC is a fairly large public school located in the city of Champaign.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UIUC are $30,862 a year.

UIUC did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Dance Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Ohio State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Dance Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Ohio State is a very large public school located in the large city of Columbus.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Ohio State are $38,377 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Ohio State also did well on our Best Dance Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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Out of the 4 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor landed the # 4 spot on the list. U-M is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Ann Arbor.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at U-M are $50,464 per year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, U-M also did well on our Best Dance Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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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

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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