2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Dance Major in District of Columbia

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Dance is the 158th most popular major in the country with 3,301 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , dance graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $22,085 and had an average of $25,277 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 5 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,578 and $24,158 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Dance Major in District of Columbia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in dance. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in dance.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Dance Major in District of Columbia

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia bachelor’s degree dance students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Dance in District of Columbia

1

American University
Washington, District of Columbia

#3 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend American University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Dance Major in District of Columbia list. American University is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s dance degrees to qualified students.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Dance at The American University

2

George Washington University
Washington, District of Columbia

#2 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend George Washington University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Dance Major in District of Columbia. This large school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s dance degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Dance at George Washington University

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.