2024 Best Dance Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
7
Colleges in the Southwest Region
29
Master's Degrees
When it comes to popularity, a master's degree in
dance sits in the middle of the road, ranking #196 out of 343 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 7 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Dance Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 29 master's degrees in dance during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
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 account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different 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 complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for dance students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Dance Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Dance Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.