Best Dance Master’s Degree Colleges in California

Unfortunately, there were no schools in California that made our Best Dance Master's Degree Schools in California list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Dance School for Your Master's Degree

The dance master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality dance program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

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 students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other dance 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.
• Student Debt - How much debt dance students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized dance related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for dance students working on their master's degree.

Insufficient Data for California

Sad to say, we don't have adequate data to form a ranking of the top quality colleges for dance in California. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in California that both offer dance and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

Instead, look at at some of our other Dance rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Dance ranking.

Best Dance Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Dance Colleges in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Washington	183	3
Oregon	158	0
Hawaii	85	0

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Dance Related Rankings by Major

Dance is one of 10 different types of Visual & Performing Arts programs to choose from.

Dance Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Dance	45

Majors Similar to Dance

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	877
Music	570
Fine & Studio Arts	364
Drama & Theater Arts	272
Design & Applied Arts	186
Arts & Media Management	55
General Visual & Performing Arts	54
Other Visual Art	7

Notes and References

• 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jazzart Dance Theatre. More about our data sources and methodologies.