2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Dance in Virginia

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In 2019-2020, 3,397 people earned their degree in dance, making the major the 161st most popular in the United States. 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 Virginia, there were 74 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $35,333 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 17 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality dance programs that also have a lower cost than 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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Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in Virginia

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Dance in Virginia

#1

Hollins University

Roanoke, Virginia

#1 in overall quality

$18,005 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$42,682 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hollins University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Dance Schools for a Master’s in Virginia. Roanoke, Virginia is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s dance degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

Hollins did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Dance Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Hollins are $18,005.

Read more about Dance at Hollins

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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.

Credits

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

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