2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Dance in New York

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Dance Major in New York for an Associate” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 New York, there were 372 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $24,168 and $23,772 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 15 dance graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,256 and $16,406 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Dance Major in New York for an Associate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in dance. To top this list, a school must have a successful dance program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Dance Major in New York for an Associate

The colleges and universities below are the best for new york associate degree dance students.

Top 2 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Dance in New York

1

Queensborough Community College
Bayside, New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Dance Major in New York for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Queensborough Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. QCC is a fairly large school located in Bayside, New York that handed out 12 associates’s dance degrees in 2020-2021.

Full QCC Dance Report

2

Nassau Community College
Garden City, New York

Top 20% overall quality in New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Nassau Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Dance Major in New York for an Associate list. Located in Garden City, New York, this fairly large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified associates’s dance students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Dance at Nassau Community College

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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

• *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.