2022 Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Dance is the 161st most popular major in the country with 3,397 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, dance graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $20,940 and had an average of $26,168 in loans still to pay off.
Across the New England region, there were 197 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $23,300 and $26,980 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,606 and $42,101 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in dance. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great dance programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the dance program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k
The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree dance students whose families make $30-$48k.
Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Dance (Income $30-$48k) in the New England Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Smith College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Smith is a private not-for-profit institution located in Northampton, Massachusetts. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.
Smith not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Dance Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Smith are $53,940, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Bennington College landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Bennington, Vermont, and it awarded 2 masters’s dance degrees in 2019-2020.
Bennington not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #0 on our “Best Dance Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Bennington College are $24,132, but some majors have different tuition rates.
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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
Footnotes
- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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