Dance
Contains Stem Majors
Add ComparisonIn 2022, the locations with the highest concentration of Dance degree recipients are New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, and Pittsburgh, PA. In 2022, the locations with a relatively high number of Dance degree recipients are Milpitas, CA, Franklin Town, MA, and Hollins, VA. The most common degree awarded to students studying Dance is a bachelors degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Dance and the types of students that study this field. Point Park University awards the most degrees in Dance in the US, but The Ailey School and Joffrey Ballet School have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Dance.
Tuition costs for Dance majors are, on average, $7,850 for in-state public colleges, and $43,520 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Dance programs are Public, 4-year or above institutions (159 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Public, 4-year or above (1,877 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Dance, is Public, 4-year or above (1,877 completions in 2022).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Dance programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
Point Park University has the most Dance degree recipients, with 78 degrees awarded in 2022.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Dance.
Out of all institutions that offer Dance programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, The Ailey School has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Dance, with 100%.
Demographic information for those who earn a degree in Visual & Performing Arts in the United States.
The most common degree type these workers hold is a Bachelors Degree. Female employees are more likely to hold Visual & Performing Arts degrees, and White students are the most common race/ethnicty group awarded degrees in Visual & Performing Arts (1,849 students).
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Dance are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Associates Degree.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Visual & Performing Arts are Bachelors Degree, Masters Degree, and Professional degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Dance.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Dance for each race & ethnicity. White students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Bachelors Degree recipients in Dance.
White Female students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Korea that hold Visual & Performing Arts degrees (4.63 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Korea (27,165 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Dance field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Dance majors need many skills, but most especially Speaking. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Dance majors need more than the average amount of Installation, Coordination, and Social Perceptiveness.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Dance majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Installation is very distinctive for majors, but the Speaking, Active Listening, and Instructing are the three most important skills for people in the field.
