Dance at Bennington College

If you plan to study dance, take a look at what Bennington College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Bennington is located in Bennington, Vermont and approximately 799 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Dance section at the bottom of this page.

Bennington Dance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Dance
• Master’s Degree in Dance

Bennington Dance Rankings

The dance major at Bennington is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Dance. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Dance Student Demographics at Bennington

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the dance majors at Bennington College.

Bennington Dance Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 13% of dance bachelor's degrees went to men and 87% went to women. The typical dance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 11% men. So male students are more repesented at Bennington since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

About 53% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in dance at Bennington are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Bennington College with a bachelor's in dance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	8
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Bennington Dance Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 100% of dance master's degrees went to men and 0% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Bennington College with a master's in dance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Concentrations Within Dance

The following dance concentations are available at Bennington College. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Bennington College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Dance	7

Related Majors

• Film, Video & Photographic Arts
• Fine & Studio Arts
• Music
• Drama & Theater Arts
• General Visual & Performing Arts

Careers That Dance Grads May Go Into

A degree in dance can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VT, the home state for Bennington College.

Occupation	Jobs in VT	Average Salary in VT

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Jared C. Benedict. under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.