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2023 Most Popular Dance Schools in the Great Lakes Region

6 Colleges
$22,613 Avg Salary
$26,488 Avg Student Debt

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 Most Popular Dance Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 6 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Dance program at each school on the list.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Dance Colleges.

Our analysis found Ohio State University - Main Campus to be the most popular school for dance students who want to pursue a degree in the Great Lakes Region . Ohio State is a fairly large public school located in the city of Columbus.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Most Popular Dance Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. UWM is a fairly large public school located in the city of Milwaukee.

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Out of the 6 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the # 3 spot on the list. UIUC is a very large public school located in the small city of Champaign.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Most Popular Dance Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. U-M is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Ann Arbor.

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A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Case Western Reserve University is a great place for dance students. Located in the large city of Cleveland, Case Western is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

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Ohio University - Athens Campus came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Most Popular Dance Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. OHIO Athens is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Athens.

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Best Dance Colleges by State

Explore the best dance colleges 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 6 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.

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