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
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Diplomas received last year
247
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-98%
popularity Rank
#363
cost
Average
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Median degree cost
$29K
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21%
cost Rank
#148
salary
Below Average
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Average Salary Two Years Out of School
$42K
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5%
salary Rank
#205
professors
Below Average
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Professor Rating
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-1%
professors Rank
#274
students
Below Average
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Diversity Rating
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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 and 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 is 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 schools that might put the cost at Emerson College into 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 overall. 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 and 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 and 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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#1 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
New York University
New York, NY | www.nyu.edu/
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#2 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA | www.usc.edu/
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#3 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL | www.northwestern.edu/
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#4 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
Yale University
New Haven, CT | https://www.yale.edu/
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#5 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
Stanford University
Stanford, CA | www.stanford.edu/
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Duke University
Durham, NC | www.duke.edu/
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#7 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY | www.columbia.edu/
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#8 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA | www.cmu.edu/
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#9 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
University of California-Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA | www.ucla.edu/
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American Musical and Dramatic Academy
New York, NY | www.amda.edu/
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#11 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL | www.uchicago.edu/
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The Juilliard School
New York, NY | www.juilliard.edu/
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#13 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
Pomona College
Claremont, CA | www.pomona.edu/
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#14 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
Boston University
Boston, MA | www.bu.edu/
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#15 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
Barnard College
New York, NY | www.barnard.edu/
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#16 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA | https://www.calarts.edu/
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#17 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH | www.dartmouth.edu/
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#18 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI | https://umich.edu/
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#19 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Winston Salem, NC | www.uncsa.edu/
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#20 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN | www.nd.edu/
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#21 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
University of California-Irvine
Irvine, CA | www.uci.edu/
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#22 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
Brown University
Providence, RI | www.brown.edu/
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#23 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA | www.swarthmore.edu/
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#24 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
Georgetown University
Washington, DC | www.georgetown.edu/
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#25 2024 Best Colleges for Drama and Dance Teacher Education
Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, MO | www.wustl.edu/