When it comes to popularity, dance sits in the middle of the road, ranking #158 out of 395 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Dance Schools in Indiana ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 55 degrees in dance during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of dance school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for dance schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Dance Schools in Indiana ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of dance degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Indiana University - Bloomington is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in dance. Located in the small city of Bloomington, IU Bloomington is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #55 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means IU Bloomington is a great university overall.
There were roughly 17 dance students who graduated with this degree at IU Bloomington in the most recent data year.
Ball State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in dance. Ball State is a fairly large public university located in the city of Muncie. This university ranks 6th out of 42 schools for overall quality in the state of Indiana.
There were about 21 dance students who graduated with this degree at Ball State in the most recent data year.
Anderson University Indiana is a good decision for students interested in a degree in dance. Located in the small city of Anderson, Anderson University Indiana is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 38th out of 42 colleges for overall quality in the state of Indiana.
There were roughly 4 dance students who graduated with this degree at Anderson University Indiana in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).