The main focus area for this major is General Dance. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Dance is a major offered under the visual and performing arts program of study at University of Missouri - Kansas City. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in dance, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, and more.
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Each year, we produce a number of different types of college rankings to help students decide which school is the best fit for them. The bachelor's program at UMKC was ranked #117 on College Factual's Best Schools for dance list. It is also ranked #2 in Missouri.
Here are some of the other rankings for UMKC.
In 2019-2020, the average part-time undergraduate tuition at UMKC was $843 per credit hour for out-of-state students. The average for in-state students was $307 per credit hour. Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $9,198 | $25,299 |
Fees | $1,587 | $1,587 |
Books and Supplies | $770 | $770 |
On Campus Room and Board | $11,748 | $11,748 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $3,556 | $3,556 |
Learn more about UMKC tuition and fees.
You may also want to consider how much in student loans you’ll need when thinking about the overall cost to attend a school. Dance students who received their bachelor’s degree at UMKC took out an average of $19,100 in student loans. That is 23% lower than the national average of $24,777.
Online degrees for the UMKC dance bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the UMKC Online Learning page.
About 90.9% of the students who received their Bachelor’s in dance in 2019-2020 were women. This is higher than the nationwide number of 88.4%.
Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 18.2% of the dance bachelor’s degrees at UMKC in 2019-2020. This is lower than the nationwide number of 36%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 1 |
Black or African American | 1 |
Hispanic or Latino | 0 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 9 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 0 |
Dance students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Dance | 11 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to dance.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Drama & Theater Arts | 13 |
Film, Video & Photographic Arts | 4 |
Fine & Studio Arts | 29 |
Music | 46 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.