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 3 schools in Florida to determine which ones were the best for dance students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 94 bachelor's degrees in dance during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Dance School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of dance for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
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
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on dance students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other dance students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for dance to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
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.
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 Florida 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.
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It's hard to beat University of Florida if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in dance. Located in the medium-sized city of Gainesville, UF is a public university with a fairly large student population.
After graduation, dance bachelor's recipients typically make around $16,639 in the first five years of their career.
Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in dance has to take a look at Florida State University. Located in the medium-sized city of Tallahassee, Florida State is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Dance bachelor's degree recipients from Florida State University get an earnings boost of around $3,575 above the average earnings of dance graduates.
University of South Florida - Main Campus is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in dance. USF Tampa is a very large public university located in the large city of Tampa.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the dance program state that they receive average early career earnings of $16,389.
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).
Your choice of dance for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
