2023 Most Popular Colleges for Dance in Louisiana

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Dance Major in Louisiana” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 3,288 people earned their degree in dance, making the major the 158th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, dance graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $22,085 and had an average of $24,389 in loans still to pay off.

Across Louisiana, there were 17 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Dance Major in Louisiana” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in dance. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in dance.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Well Attended Dance Major in Louisiana

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Dance Major in Louisiana”.

Top 2 Most Popular Colleges for Dance in Louisiana

1

Tulane University of Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana

#1 overall quality in Louisiana

$43,541 Average Early-Career Earnings

$25,150 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tulane University of Louisiana. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Dance Major in Louisiana list. Tulane University of Louisiana is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in New Orleans, Louisiana. It awarded 10 ’s dance degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Dance at Tulane

2

Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Natchitoches, Louisiana

#15 overall quality in Louisiana

$38,919 Average Early-Career Earnings

$28,113 Average Student Debt

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern State University of Louisiana. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Dance Major in Louisiana list. NSU is a fairly large public school situated in Natchitoches, Louisiana. It awarded 7 ’s dance degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Dance at NSU

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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

• *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.