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2022 Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k

2 Ranked Colleges
4 Degrees Awarded
$42,100 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Dance Schools for a Master's in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 the Plains States region, there were 124 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $18,900 and $22,992 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the dance program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k” list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree dance students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Dance (Income $75-$110k) in the Plains States Region

#1

Washington University in St Louis

Saint Louis, Missouri
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washington University in St Louis. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s dance students in 2019-2020.

WUSTL did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Dance Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at WUSTL are $56,562.

Full WUSTL Dance Report

#2

University of Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Iowa. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $75-$110k. Iowa is a large public school situated in Iowa City, Iowa. It awarded 2 masters’s dance degrees in 2019-2020.

Iowa not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Dance Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Iowa are $27,613.

Full University of Iowa Dance Report

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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.

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