2025 Best General Dance Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region
4Colleges in the New England Region
160Bachelor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in general dance, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #129 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best General Dance Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 160 bachelor's degrees in general dance to qualified students.
Choosing a Great General Dance School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The dance movement studies bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general dance students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of general dance students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
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 general dance related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general dance students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Dance Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study General Dance in the New England Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in general dance.
Top New England Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Dance Movement Studies
Rankings in Majors Related to Dance Movement Studies
General Dance is one of 2 different types of Dance programs to choose from.
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).