2022 Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” 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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 925 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,525 and $28,709 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 76 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,887 and $46,998 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 8 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.
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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region.
Top 8 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Dance in the Middle Atlantic Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montclair State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Montclair State University is located in Montclair, New Jersey and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 10 masters’s dance degrees to qualified students.
Montclair State also took the #4 spot in our “Best Dance Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Montclair State are $18,972, but some majors have different tuition rates.
Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Temple University landed the #2 spot on the list. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s dance degrees to 11 students in 2019-2020.
Temple did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Dance Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Temple are $24,236.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The College at Brockport. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Brockport, New York, and it awarded 4 masters’s dance degrees in 2019-2020.
SUNY Brockport did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Dance Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at SUNY Brockport are $24,080, but some majors have different tuition rates.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Maryland - College Park. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in College Park, Maryland, this large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s dance students in 2019-2020.
UMCP not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Dance Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Maryland - College Park are $30,885, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rutgers University - New Brunswick. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region. Rutgers New Brunswick is a large school located in New Brunswick, New Jersey that handed out 3 masters’s dance degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our middle atlantic region master’s degree dance students list, Rutgers New Brunswick has also earned the #7 rank in our “Best Dance Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Rutgers University - New Brunswick are $32,132, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
With a ranking of #6, New York University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in New York, New York, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 27 degrees to qualified masters’s dance students in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our middle atlantic region master’s degree dance students list, NYU has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Dance Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at New York University are $36,892, but some majors have different tuition rates.
Sarah Lawrence College landed the #7 spot on the 2022 Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. This small school is located in Bronxville, New York, and it awarded 5 masters’s dance degrees in 2019-2020.
Sarah Lawrence not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #8 on our “Best Dance Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Sarah Lawrence College are $31,512, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.
The University of the Arts ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. UArts is a small school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that handed out 13 masters’s dance degrees in 2019-2020.
UArts not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Dance Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at The University of the Arts are $46,680, but some majors have different tuition rates.
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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%.
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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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