2025 Best Dance Bachelor's Degree Schools in New Jersey

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in dance, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #115 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for dance students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 98 bachelor's degrees in dance to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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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. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

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

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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 colleges 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 New Jersey ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Dance in New Jersey

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in dance.

Top New Jersey Schools for a Bachelor's in Dance

1

Rutgers University - New Brunswick
New Brunswick, NJ

24 Annual Graduates

Rutgers University - New Brunswick is a great decision for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in dance. Located in the city of New Brunswick, Rutgers New Brunswick is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in dance from Rutgers University - New Brunswick

2

Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ

33 Annual Graduates

$23,191 Median Starting Salary

It is hard to beat Montclair State University if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in dance. Located in the suburb of Montclair, Montclair State is a public university with a very large student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the dance program state that they receive average early career earnings of $23,191.

More information about a bachelor’s in dance from Montclair State University

3

Rider University
Lawrenceville, NJ

19 Annual Graduates

$24,515 Median Starting Salary

It's hard to beat Rider University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in dance. Located in the large suburb of Lawrenceville, Rider is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the dance program earn around $24,515 in the first couple years of their career.

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

4

New Jersey City University
Jersey City, NJ

15 Annual Graduates

New Jersey City University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in dance. Located in the city of Jersey City, NJCU is a public university with a medium-sized student population.More information about a bachelor’s in dance from New Jersey City University

Best Dance Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	275	299
Pennsylvania	274	261
Maryland	207	27
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	98

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Fine & Studio Arts	527
Music	437
Design & Applied Arts	316
Drama & Theater Arts	207
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	193
General Visual & Performing Arts	120
Arts & Media Management	14

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.