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Dance at St Olaf College

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Dance at St Olaf College

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

St. Olaf is located in Northfield, Minnesota and approximately 2,953 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 4 students received a bachelor's degree in dance from St. Olaf.

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

St. Olaf Dance Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Dance

St. Olaf Dance Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The dance major at St. Olaf 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
Best Dance Bachelor’s Degree Schools 40
Best Dance Schools 42
Most Focused Dance Schools 103
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Best Value Dance Bachelor’s Degree Schools 145

Dance Student Demographics at St. Olaf

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

St. Olaf Dance Bachelor’s Program

75% Women
50% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
Of the 4 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Dance from St. Olaf in 2020-2021, 25% were men and 75% were women.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 12% 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 St Olaf College with a bachelor's in dance.

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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

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

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 MN, the home state for St Olaf College.

Occupation Jobs in MN Average Salary in MN
Art, Drama, and Music Professors 2,030 $78,950
Choreographers 400 $49,400

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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