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2022 Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia

4 Ranked Colleges
44 Degrees Awarded
$17,100 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor's in Georgia

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Georgia” 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 Georgia, there were 44 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 44 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,656 and $26,705 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia” ranking looked at 4 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.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia.

Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Dance in Georgia

#1

University of Georgia

Athens, Georgia
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Georgia landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Athens, Georgia, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s dance degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UGA, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Dance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Georgia is $13,649 for Georgia Bachelor’s Degree Dance students.

The low student loan default rate of 2.5% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.

Read more about Dance at UGA

#2

Kennesaw State University

Kennesaw, Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Kennesaw State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia. KSU Georgia is a large public school situated in Kennesaw, Georgia. It awarded 24 bachelors’s dance degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at KSU Georgia, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Dance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Kennesaw State University is $17,221 for Georgia Bachelor’s Degree Dance students.

Read full report on Dance at Kennesaw State University

#3

Valdosta State University

Valdosta, Georgia
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, Valdosta State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Valdosta, Georgia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s dance degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at VSU, the school also landed the #4 spot in our “Best Dance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” ranking. It costs about $13,969 for georgia bachelor’s degree dance students per year to attend VSU.

Read more about Dance at VSU

#4

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Dance Schools for a Bachelor’s in Georgia. Emory is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Atlanta, Georgia. It awarded 6 bachelors’s dance degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Emory, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Dance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” ranking. It costs about $23,734 for georgia bachelor’s degree dance students per year to attend Emory.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The low student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Emory University Dance Report

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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