2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Dance in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Dance Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 3,288 people earned their degree in dance, making the major the 158th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, dance graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $22,085 and had an average of $24,389 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 358 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $22,613 and $26,488 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 1 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Dance Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in dance. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in dance.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The dance school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Dance Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Dance Major in the Great Lakes Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Dance Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Dance in the Great Lakes Region

1

Adrian College
Adrian, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Adrian College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Dance Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Adrian is a small school located in Adrian, Michigan that handed out 1 associates’s dance degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Adrian College Dance Report

2

Henry Ford College
Dearborn, Michigan

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Dance Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Henry Ford College landed the #2 spot on the list. Henry Ford College is a public institution located in Dearborn, Michigan. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Henry Ford College Dance Report

2

University of Saint Francis - Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne, Indiana

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Saint Francis - Fort Wayne. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Dance Major in the Great Lakes Region. University of St. Francis Fort Wayne is located in Fort Wayne, Indiana and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 associates’s dance degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Dance at University of St. Francis Fort Wayne

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Dance

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.