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2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

There are about 734 students enrolled in Drama and Dance Teacher Education in the USA.

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popularity

Not Very Popular

Compared to national avg.

Diplomas received last year

247

Vs. National Avg.

-98%

popularity Rank

#363

cost

Average

Compared to national avg.

Median degree cost

$29K

Vs. National Avg.

21%

cost Rank

#148

salary

Below Average

Compared to national avg.

Average Salary Two Years Out of School

$42K

Vs. National Avg.

5%

salary Rank

#205

professors

Below Average

Compared to national avg.

Professor Rating

C+

Vs. National Avg.

-1%

professors Rank

#274

students

Below Average

Compared to national avg.

Diversity Rating

C+

Vs. National Avg.

1%

students Rank

#232

SUMMARY

Majoring in Drama and Dance Teacher Education is a valuable choice and ordinarily an obligatory first step for pupils coveting to pursue a career as a dancer, a dance instructor, or a fitness instructor. Interestingly, drama and dance teacher education is a very rare degree ranking as the 369th most popular degree. Last academic year, there were 122 drama and dance teacher education graduates. In-state tuition for drama and dance teacher education at private institutions is, on average, 3.7 times more expensive than their public fellows.

With just 71 universities having programs for drama and dance teacher education you could have a smaller selection of institutions that will have an option for you. If you are hoping to immerse yourself with other drama and dance teacher education students, consider colleges in Utah which have the most undergrads admitted to drama and dance teacher education annually. Zooming out, the top region to study drama and dance teacher education is in the Rocky Mountains region with Brigham Young University-Provo, Southern Utah University, and Utah Valley University best representing the region. Interestingly, our pick of the best conference to major in drama and dance teacher education is the West Coast Conference with Brigham Young University-Provo representing the conference. That said, our choice for the best school for drama and dance teacher education is Emerson College. You may also want to check out our list of the best colleges.

The objectively best school does not mean it is the 'best' school for every student. There might be many more angels to consider when choosing school. External stuff like campus amenities, transportation services, and food would definitely alter your inclinations of where to go to school. Here at authority.org, we have examined the pros and cons for you. If, for example, you are interested in which drama and dance teacher education university boasts the best campus, the winner is Grand Canyon University. If, for example, you are primarily interested in which college has the top campus, we have a whole page dedicated to that. We have carefully pored through professor reviews, student reviews, government databases, and more to evaluate every U.S. major in an unbiased and informative way. Here you can explore our well researched list for the colleges with the best student life&nbspand from that list, our choice of the college with the best student life for drama and dance teacher education is Emerson College. Are you curious why? Keep reading to learn more about Authority's top recommendations. Many of our picks just might shock you.

If expense is a significant factor in your decision on where to go to school, you might consider avoiding Emerson College. Emerson College&nbspis our most expensive university for drama and dance teacher education, at least regarding out of state enrollment. That being said, we have an entire list of the most expensive&nbspschools that might put the cost at Emerson College&nbspinto perspective. For more context, you may care to know that drama and dance teacher education is the 383rd most expensive program in the nation, with an average associated cost of $17,000. To zoom out a little, the most costly state for drama and dance teacher education in the nation is Massachusetts with expenses at the main university, Emerson College, of $48,280. To zoom out even further, the most expensive region for drama and dance teacher education is unfortunately unavailable due to missing data.

Our cheapest region for drama and dance teacher education is the Rocky Mountains region which is represented by Brigham Young University-Provo with a cost of $5,790. More optimistically, the most affordable school for drama and dance teacher education is Brigham Young University-Provo. Our full list of the most affordable schools can be found here.

In-state learners can anticipate paying around $7,800 for a degree in drama and dance teacher education. That cost inflates significantly to a median of $19,500 for the out-of-state public-school undergrad. Our selection for the university representing the best value for drama and dance teacher education: Emerson College. Here you can see our comprehensive list for the schools we believe to be the best value&nbspoverall. Do know, this idea is based on the assumption that you are an out-of-state student. The value proposition changes when in-state tuition costs are considered, but we do not know in which states any one student has residency.

Earnings for drama and dance teacher education majors can cover a wide range, but within two-years of completing the major students will often make around $46,000. There can be much variation in earnings; highest paid earners can make up to $91,100. Even right out of university, the minimum earning positions within the drama and dance teacher education field make $23,000, which could be worse. The top earning grads from drama and dance teacher education come from Emerson College&nbspand if you want to find the colleges with all of the highest earning graduates, we have that too.

The prevailing diversity of drama and dance teacher education ranks subpar, coming within only the 22nd percentile of all majors. The college with the highest composite diversity for drama and dance teacher education is Grand Canyon University&nbspand here you can find our comprehensive list for the schools which have the most diversity. The financial diversity of Drama and Dance Teacher Education only stands in the 94th percentile of all majors. Racial diversity is even less in the 20th percentile. White undergraduates compose the largest share at 75% of students studying drama and dance teacher education. Additionally, 75% of undergraduates seeking a drama and dance teacher education major are women.

We have insufficient professors data for drama and dance teacher education to make the conclusions we normally would have made in this sentence. If we including data other than basic rankings it becomes clear that the school possessing comprehensively the best instructors for drama and dance teacher education is Brigham Young University-Provo. One can find an explanation of our ever evolving ranking methodology of the best overall professors here, as well as many of the best instructors in the country.

Finally, the most difficult college to get into for drama and dance teacher education is Emerson College. While we think of this list more as a novelty, we do have a comprehensive list for the hardest colleges to get into. That being said, we do hope you believe that considering the education process from context mainly formed from superlatives can cause issues. We encourage you to read our other pages on different topics and read some of our helpful background articles on essential things to think about as your university search develops.

Top 25 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

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A+

Rating

#1 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

New York University

New York, NY | www.nyu.edu/

21%

Acceptance

58,361

Students

#23

Ranking

$55K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#2 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

University of Southern California

Los Angeles, CA | www.usc.edu/

16%

Acceptance

52,376

Students

#28

Ranking

$60K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#3 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL | www.northwestern.edu/

9%

Acceptance

25,870

Students

#12

Ranking

$59K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#4 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

Yale University

New Haven, CT | https://www.yale.edu/

7%

Acceptance

14,910

Students

#8

Ranking

$58K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#5 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

Stanford University

Stanford, CA | www.stanford.edu/

5%

Acceptance

20,961

Students

#2

Ranking

$56K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#6 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

Duke University

Durham, NC | www.duke.edu/

8%

Acceptance

17,855

Students

#6

Ranking

$58K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#7 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

Columbia University in the City of New York

New York, NY | www.columbia.edu/

7%

Acceptance

33,882

Students

#10

Ranking

$62K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#8 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA | www.cmu.edu/

17%

Acceptance

15,567

Students

#21

Ranking

$59K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#9 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

University of California-Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA | www.ucla.edu/

14%

Acceptance

46,947

Students

#50

Ranking

$43K

Tuition

A

Rating

#10 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

American Musical and Dramatic Academy

New York, NY | www.amda.edu/

44%

Acceptance

2,113

Students

#278

Ranking

$42K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#11 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL | www.uchicago.edu/

7%

Acceptance

20,413

Students

#11

Ranking

$61K

Tuition

A

Rating

#12 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

The Juilliard School

New York, NY | www.juilliard.edu/

8%

Acceptance

979

Students

#171

Ranking

$49K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#13 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

Pomona College

Claremont, CA | www.pomona.edu/

9%

Acceptance

1,733

Students

#40

Ranking

$55K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#14 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

Boston University

Boston, MA | www.bu.edu/

20%

Acceptance

42,047

Students

#35

Ranking

$58K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#15 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

Barnard College

New York, NY | www.barnard.edu/

14%

Acceptance

2,771

Students

#30

Ranking

$57K

Tuition

A

Rating

#16 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

California Institute of the Arts

Valencia, CA | https://www.calarts.edu/

27%

Acceptance

1,558

Students

#240

Ranking

$53K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#17 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

Dartmouth College

Hanover, NH | www.dartmouth.edu/

9%

Acceptance

7,171

Students

#15

Ranking

$60K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#18 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI | https://umich.edu/

26%

Acceptance

49,530

Students

#33

Ranking

$52K

Tuition

A

Rating

#19 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

University of North Carolina School of the Arts

Winston Salem, NC | www.uncsa.edu/

36%

Acceptance

1,102

Students

#228

Ranking

$26K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#20 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame, IN | www.nd.edu/

19%

Acceptance

13,268

Students

#16

Ranking

$58K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#21 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

University of California-Irvine

Irvine, CA | www.uci.edu/

30%

Acceptance

39,059

Students

#77

Ranking

$44K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#22 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

Brown University

Providence, RI | www.brown.edu/

8%

Acceptance

10,807

Students

#13

Ranking

$61K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#23 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

Swarthmore College

Swarthmore, PA | www.swarthmore.edu/

9%

Acceptance

1,689

Students

#36

Ranking

$54K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#24 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

Georgetown University

Washington, DC | www.georgetown.edu/

17%

Acceptance

22,720

Students

#19

Ranking

$58K

Tuition

A+

Rating

#25 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education

Washington University in St Louis

Saint Louis, MO | www.wustl.edu/

16%

Acceptance

17,893

Students

#18

Ranking

$57K

Tuition

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