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Most Popular Schools for General Dance Major & Degree Program

A general program that prepares individuals to express ideas, feelings, and/or inner visions through the performance of one or more of the dance disciplines, including but not limited to ballet, modern, jazz, ethnic, and folk dance, and that focuses on the study and analysis of dance as a cultural phenomenon. Includes instruction in technique, choreography, Laban notation, dance history and criticism, and dance production.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 New York University 80 1% $73,566
2 Point Park University 62 6% $46,090
3 The Ailey School 58 100% $33,705
4 Dean College 51 14% $58,770
5 The University of the Arts 48 11% $67,741
6 SUNY at Purchase College 46 4% $26,982
7 Montclair State University 41 1% $31,704
8 University of California-Irvine 41 0% $34,261
9 Texas State University 39 0% $23,130
10 Rutgers University-New Brunswick 39 0% $32,443
11 Oklahoma City University 36 4% $44,172
12 California State University-Long Beach 34 0% $24,738
13 University of North Carolina School of the Arts 32 12% $22,112
14 The University of Alabama 30 0% $29,872
15 University of North Carolina at Greensboro 29 1% $21,297
16 SUNY College at Brockport 29 1% $24,608
17 Pace University 29 1% $66,499
18 Chapman University 28 1% $73,182
19 Texas Woman's University 27 1% $20,272
20 Columbia College Chicago 27 2% $45,644
21 University of Utah 27 0% $24,472
22 University of California-Los Angeles 26 0% $34,620
23 University of Arizona 25 0% $29,217
24 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 25 0% $24,486
25 Ohio State University-Main Campus 24 0% $27,367
26 Arizona State University-Tempe 24 0% $28,048
27 Fordham University 23 1% $74,265
28 Berklee College of Music 23 2% $65,144
29 University at Buffalo 22 0% $27,758
30 University of California-Santa Barbara 22 0% $36,659
31 Wayne State University 21 0% $27,157
32 George Mason University 21 0% $30,284
33 Muhlenberg College 21 4% $67,535
34 Western Michigan University 21 0% $26,009
35 Kennesaw State University 21 0% $25,773
36 Jacksonville University 20 2% $54,868
37 Temple University 20 0% $33,004
38 University of North Carolina at Charlotte 20 0% $23,694
39 The Juilliard School 20 7% $65,610
40 Florida State University 19 0% $22,168
41 Hollins University 19 9% $55,655
42 University of Minnesota-Twin Cities 19 0% $27,898
43 Brigham Young University-Provo 18 0% $18,776
44 University of South Carolina-Columbia 18 0% $28,301
45 University of Massachusetts-Amherst 18 0% $30,913
46 Joffrey Ballet School 18 100% $42,525
47 Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania 17 1% $25,147
48 Marymount Manhattan College 17 4% $58,110
49 Cornish College of the Arts 17 14% $59,442
50 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 17 0% $27,638
51 University of Wisconsin-Madison 16 0% $26,025
52 Belhaven University 16 1% $35,450
53 University of Florida 16 0% $21,211
54 Stephen F Austin State University 15 1% $22,156
55 University of Iowa 15 0% $24,239
56 Virginia Commonwealth University 15 0% $32,041
57 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 15 0% $30,102
58 San Jose State University 14 0% $29,193
59 California State University-Fullerton 14 0% $27,738
60 University of Missouri-Kansas City 14 0% $24,116
61 Mercyhurst University 14 2% $53,311
62 Texas Tech University 14 0% $24,472
63 University of Maryland-Baltimore County 14 0% $28,058
64 College of Charleston 14 1% $30,239
65 Utah Valley University 14 0% $6,450
66 University of Cincinnati-Main Campus 14 0% $27,476
67 Saint Mary's College of California 14 1% $67,168
68 Sam Houston State University 13 0% $22,478
69 University of South Florida-Main Campus 13 0% $23,320
70 University of California-Riverside 13 0% $35,242
71 CUNY Hunter College 13 0% $22,379
72 Southern Methodist University 13 0% $74,737
73 University of North Texas 13 0% $24,712
74 Loyola Marymount University 13 1% $67,369
75 University of Southern Mississippi 13 0% $24,048
76 University of Kansas 13 0% $26,566
77 Alabama State University 12 2% $22,110
78 Shenandoah University 12 1% $47,000
79 University of Colorado Boulder 12 0% $31,044
80 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 12 0% $30,298
81 University of Oklahoma-Norman Campus 12 0% $29,097
82 Hofstra University 12 0% $63,748
83 Goucher College 12 3% $62,506
84 University of Hawaii at Manoa 12 0% $29,858
85 San Diego State University 11 0% $29,318
86 San Francisco State University 11 0% $27,480
87 Valdosta State University 11 0% $21,320
88 University of Hartford 11 1% $56,599
89 East Carolina University 11 0% $21,672
90 University of Maryland-College Park 11 0% $27,146
91 Dominican University of California 11 2% $65,818
92 Rider University 11 1% $62,140
93 Towson University 10 0% $26,834
94 Bennington College 10 5% $73,270
95 The University of Texas at Austin 10 0% $26,506
96 Georgian Court University 9 1% $51,734
97 Mills College 9 2% $47,784
98 Radford University 9 0% $24,088
99 Marygrove College 9 2% N/A
100 Adelphi University 9 0% $58,430

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Dance, General program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.