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2023 Best Value Dance Schools in New Jersey

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$14,551 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$22,346 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Dance School for You

Dance is the #146 most popular major in New Jersey with 7 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Dance Schools in New Jersey ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in New Jersey to see which programs offered the best value experiences for dance students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Dance Schools in New Jersey

Check out the dance programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best New Jersey Schools for Affordable Quality in Dance

#1

Montclair State University

Montclair, NJ
$13,298 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Montclair State University the best value school in New Jersey for dance students. Montclair State is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Montclair.

Montclair State undergraduate students pay an average of $13,298 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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$15,804 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Rutgers University - New Brunswick. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Dance Schools in New Jersey list. Located in the small city of New Brunswick, Rutgers New Brunswick is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Rutgers New Brunswick undergraduate students pay an average of $15,804 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Best Value Dance Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Value Dance Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New York 37
Pennsylvania 20
Maryland 3
District of Columbia 0

More Dance Rankings in New Jersey

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 2 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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