2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 3,148 people earned their degree in general dance, making the major the 212th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 569 general dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 48 general dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,213 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in general dance. That schools that top this list have a program in general dance in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree dance movement studies students.
Top 8 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Dance in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hollins University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region. Roanoke, Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s dance movement studies degrees to 18 students in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.7% 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%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Jacksonville University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region. This small school is located in Jacksonville, Florida, and it awarded 9 masters’s dance movement studies degrees in 2020-2021.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Belhaven University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Jackson, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s dance movement studies degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read full report on General Dance at Belhaven University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Duke University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Located in Durham, North Carolina, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified masters’s dance movement studies students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Dance at Duke
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Greensboro. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. University of North Carolina at Greensboro is located in Greensboro, North Carolina and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s dance movement studies degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on General Dance at University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Florida State University ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Tallahassee, Florida, and it awarded 7 masters’s dance movement studies degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on General Dance at Florida State
Tulane University of Louisiana came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Tulane is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in New Orleans, Louisiana. It awarded 2 masters’s dance movement studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. 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 General Dance at Tulane University of Louisiana
The University of Alabama ranked #8 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southeast Region list. Tuscaloosa, Alabama is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s dance movement studies degrees to 38 students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
Read full report on General Dance at UA
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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
- *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.
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