2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southwest Region
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Degrees Awarded
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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 Southwest region, there were 407 general dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 29 general dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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 Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southwest Region”.
Top 8 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Dance in the Southwest Region
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Woman’s University landed the #1 spot on the list. TWU is a fairly large school located in Denton, Texas that handed out 15 masters’s dance movement studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Texas Woman’s University General Dance Report
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #2 spot on the list. Tucson, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s dance movement studies degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about General Dance at University of Arizona
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #3 spot on the list. Arizona State University - Tempe is a large public school situated in Tempe, Arizona. It awarded 6 masters’s dance movement studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%.
Full Arizona State University - Tempe General Dance Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Oklahoma Norman Campus. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southwest Region. Norman, Oklahoma is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s dance movement studies degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Oklahoma Norman Campus General Dance Report
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Sam Houston State University landed the #5 spot on the list. SHSU is a large public school situated in Huntsville, Texas. It awarded 1 masters’s dance movement studies degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about General Dance at Sam Houston State University
University of New Mexico - Main Campus ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southwest Region list. UNM is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s dance movement studies degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on General Dance at UNM
Southern Methodist University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Dance Movement Studies Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #7. Located in Dallas, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 14 degrees to qualified masters’s dance movement studies students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about General Dance at SMU
The University of Texas at Austin 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 Southwest Region ranking. UT Austin is a large public school situated in Austin, Texas. It awarded 19 masters’s dance movement studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about General Dance at The University of Texas at Austin
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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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