2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Dance in the Southeast Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 3,129 people earned their degree in general dance, making the major the 212th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 536 general dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 general dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general dance. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general dance program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree dance movement studies students.
Top 8 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Dance in the Southeast Region
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Hollins University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Roanoke, Virginia, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 9 diplomas to qualified masters’s dance movement studies students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full Hollins University General Dance Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Jacksonville University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Jacksonville, Florida is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s dance movement studies degrees to 8 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full JU General Dance Report
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Belhaven University landed the #3 spot on the list. This small school is located in Jackson, Mississippi, and it awarded 17 masters’s dance movement studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read more about General Dance at Belhaven
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Duke University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region. Duke is located in Durham, North Carolina and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 2 masters’s dance movement studies degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 98%.
Full Duke General Dance Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region. University of North Carolina at Greensboro is located in Greensboro, North Carolina and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 5 masters’s dance movement studies degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full University of North Carolina at Greensboro General Dance Report
Florida State University landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Florida State is located in Tallahassee, Florida and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 10 masters’s dance movement studies degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.0% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on General Dance at Florida State
With a ranking of #7, Tulane University of Louisiana did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. New Orleans, Louisiana is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s dance movement studies degrees to 7 students in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read more about General Dance at Tulane University of Louisiana
With a ranking of #8, The University of Alabama did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Tuscaloosa, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s dance movement studies degrees to 39 students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Dance at The University of Alabama
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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