2024 Best Dance Bachelor's Degree Schools in Maryland

a bachelor's degree in dance is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #115 out of 363 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Dance Bachelor's Degree Schools in Maryland ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 27 bachelor's degrees in dance during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Dance School for Your Bachelor's Degree

The dance bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality dance program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a bachelor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to dance students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of dance students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt dance students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized dance related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for dance students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Dance Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Dance Bachelor's Degree Schools in Maryland ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Dance in Maryland

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in dance.

Top Maryland Schools for a Bachelor's in Dance

1

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD

6 Annual Graduates

University of Maryland - College Park is a good option for students interested in a bachelor's degree in dance. Located in the large suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in dance from University of Maryland - College Park

2

Towson University
Towson, MD

11 Annual Graduates

$19,803 Median Starting Salary

$25,000 Median Student Debt

It's hard to beat Towson University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in dance. Towson is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Towson.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the dance program report average early career earnings of $19,803.

More information about a bachelor’s in dance from Towson University

3

Goucher College
Baltimore, MD

8 Annual Graduates

$27,484 Median Starting Salary

Goucher College is a great choice for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in dance. Located in the small city of Baltimore, Goucher is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Those dance students who get their bachelor's degree from Goucher College receive $3,841 more than the average dance student.

More information about a bachelor’s in dance from Goucher College

3

University of Maryland - Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD

2 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat University of Maryland - Baltimore County if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in dance. UMBC is a fairly large public university located in the large suburb of Baltimore.More information about a bachelor’s in dance from University of Maryland - Baltimore County

4

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

Johns Hopkins University is a good choice for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in dance. Located in the large city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in dance from Johns Hopkins University

Best Dance Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Dance Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	275	299
Pennsylvania	274	261
New Jersey	193	85
District of Columbia	126	14

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Dance Related Rankings by Major

Dance is one of 10 different types of Visual & Performing Arts programs to choose from.

Dance Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Dance	27

Majors Similar to Dance

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Fine & Studio Arts	553
Design & Applied Arts	232
Music	209
Drama & Theater Arts	167
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	64
General Visual & Performing Arts	27
Other Visual Art	6

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to Jazzart Dance Theatre. More about our data sources and methodologies.