2022 Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $30-$48k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking - to help you make that 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 Virginia, there were 74 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $35,333 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality dance programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the dance program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for virginia master’s degree dance students whose families make $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Dance (Income $30-$48k) in Virginia

#1

Hollins University

Roanoke, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$18,005 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$42,682 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hollins University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $30-$48k. Roanoke, Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s dance degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

Hollins also made our “Best Dance Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Hollins are $18,005, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Dance at Hollins University

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Dance (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Dance (Income $30-$48k)

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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jazzart Dance Theatre.

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