2022 Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alabama For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alabama For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Dance is the 161st most popular major in the country with 3,397 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, dance graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $20,940 and had an average of $26,168 in loans still to pay off.

Across Alabama, there were 69 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $26,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 69 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,191 and $26,651 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alabama For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in dance. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent dance programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the dance program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alabama For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for alabama bachelor’s degree dance students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 3 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Dance (Income $0-$30k) in Alabama

#1

The University of Alabama

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

#1 in overall quality

$19,322 Average Net Price

$21,508 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alabama For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Alabama landed the #1 spot on the list. UA is located in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 43 bachelors’s dance degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UA, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Dance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Alabama” ranking. It costs about $19,322 for alabama bachelor’s degree dance students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend The University of Alabama.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Dance at The University of Alabama

#2

Troy University

Troy, Alabama

#2 in overall quality

$14,062 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alabama For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Troy University landed the #2 spot on the list. TROY is located in Troy, Alabama and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 12 bachelors’s dance degrees to qualified students.

TROY also made our “Best Dance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Alabama” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $14,062 for Alabama Bachelor’s Degree Dance students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Troy University.

Read full report on Dance at TROY

#3

Alabama State University

Montgomery, Alabama

#3 in overall quality

$13,531 Average Net Price

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Alabama For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Alabama State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Montgomery, Alabama is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s dance degrees to 14 students in 2019-2020.

Alabama State also made our “Best Dance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Alabama” list, coming in at #3. The yearly cost to attend Alabama State University is $13,531 for alabama bachelor’s degree dance students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read full report on Dance at Alabama State

• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Dance (Income $0-$30k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Dance (Income $0-$30k)

Notes and References

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

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

Credits

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jazzart Dance Theatre.

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