Dance at California State University - Long Beach

Every dance school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the dance program at California State University - Long Beach stacks up to those at other schools.

CSULB is located in Long Beach, California and approximately 40,069 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.

CSULB Dance Degrees Available

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

CSULB Dance Rankings

The dance major at CSULB 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 CSULB

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the dance majors at California State University - Long Beach.

CSULB Dance Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 19% of dance bachelor's degrees went to men and 81% went to women. The typical dance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 11% men. So male students are more repesented at CSULB since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 28% more racial-ethnic minorities in its dance bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from California State University - Long Beach with a bachelor's in dance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	16
White	13
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

CSULB Dance Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 25% of dance master's degrees went to men and 75% went to women.

In the dance master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 50% of degree recipients. That is 13% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from California State University - Long Beach with a master's in dance.

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

Concentrations Within Dance

Dance majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from California State University - Long Beach. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Dance	57

Related Majors

• Arts & Media Management
• Drama & Theater Arts
• Music
• Design & Applied Arts
• Film, Video & Photographic 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 CA, the home state for California State University - Long Beach.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	9,710	$115,460
Choreographers	410	$70,020

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 Summum under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.