When it comes to popularity, dance sits in the middle of the road, ranking #158 out of 395 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Dance Schools in Colorado ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 30 degrees in dance during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of dance school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for dance schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 the Best Dance Schools in Colorado.
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The schools below may not offer all types of dance degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Colorado State University - Fort Collins is a good decision for students interested in a degree in dance. Located in the midsize city of Fort Collins, Colorado State is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #156 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Colorado State is a great university overall.
There were approximately 8 dance students who graduated with this degree at Colorado State in the most recent data year.
University of Colorado Boulder is a wonderful decision for students pursuing a degree in dance. Located in the city of Boulder, CU - Boulder is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #115 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means CU - Boulder is a great university overall.
There were approximately 12 dance students who graduated with this degree at CU - Boulder in the most recent year we have data available.
Colorado Mesa University is a great choice for students pursuing a degree in dance. Colorado Mesa is a medium-sized public university located in the small city of Grand Junction. This university ranks 28th out of 33 colleges for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were approximately 3 dance students who graduated with this degree at Colorado Mesa in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in dance needs to check out Metropolitan State University of Denver. Located in the large city of Denver, MSU Denver is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 26th out of 33 schools for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were approximately 3 dance students who graduated with this degree at MSU Denver in the most recent data year.
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).