2022 Best Value Dance Schools in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Dance Schools in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

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 Mississippi, there were 27 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $25,500 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Dance Schools in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Dance Schools in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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Best Value Dance Schools in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for mississippi dance students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Colleges for Dance in Mississippi (With Aid)

#1

University of Southern Mississippi

Hattiesburg, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$14,923 Average Net Price

$38,730 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Dance Schools in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Mississippi landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Southern Mississippi is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 9 ’s dance degrees to qualified students.

Southern Miss also took the #1 spot in our “Best Dance Schools in Mississippi” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Southern Mississippi is $14,923 for Mississippi Dance students with aid.

Read full report on Dance at University of Southern Mississippi

#2

Belhaven University

Jackson, Mississippi

#2 in overall quality

$17,439 Average Net Price

$37,367 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Belhaven University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Dance Schools in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid. Jackson, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s dance degrees to 18 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Belhaven, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Dance Schools in Mississippi” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Belhaven University is $17,439 for Mississippi Dance students with aid.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read more about Dance at Belhaven

• Best Value Colleges for Dance in the Southeast Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Colleges for Dance (With Aid)

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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