Dance Therapy is about average in terms of popularity for master's degrees programs. That is, it ranks #665 out of the 1172 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for dance therapy students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 47 master's degrees in dance therapy to qualified students.
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to dance therapy students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other dance therapy students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized dance therapy related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for dance therapy students working on their master's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Dance Therapy Master's Degree Schools ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Dance Therapy in the United States
The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in dance therapy.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).