Dance at Nazareth College

If you are interested in studying dance, you may want to check out the program at Nazareth College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Nazareth is located in Rochester, New York and has a total student population of 2,791. Of the 640 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Nazareth College in 2021, 7 of them were dance majors.

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

Nazareth Dance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Dance

Nazareth Dance Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks dance programs across the country. The following shows how Nazareth performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The dance major at Nazareth 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.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Popular Dance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	122
	122
Best Dance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	125
Best Value Dance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	148
Best Value Dance Schools	160

Dance Student Demographics at Nazareth

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

Nazareth Dance Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 7 dance majors earned their bachelor's degree from Nazareth. Of these graduates, 0% were men and 100% were women.

About 57% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in dance at Nazareth are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% 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 Nazareth College with a bachelor's in dance.

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

Nazareth also has a doctoral program available in dance. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Other Visual Art
• Fine & Studio Arts
• Design & Applied Arts
• Music
• Drama & Theater 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 NY, the home state for Nazareth College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	11,530	$99,870
Choreographers	60	$85,720

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 Nazareth College under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.