Best Dance Master’s Degree Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Far Western US Region that made our Best Dance Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region 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. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

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 include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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 complete 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 the Far Western US Region

Because of missing data, we were not able to provide you with the dance quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Far Western US Region that both offer dance and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

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

Best Dance Colleges by State

Explore the best dance colleges for a specific state in the Far Western US Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
California	253	56
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	39

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	757
Music	609
Fine & Studio Arts	440
Drama & Theater Arts	324
Design & Applied Arts	236
General Visual & Performing Arts	77
Arts & Media Management	59
Other Visual Art	7
Crafts, Folk Art & Artisanry	5

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.