General Dance at The University of Texas at Austin

If you plan to study general dance, take a look at what The University of Texas at Austin has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UT Austin is located in Austin, Texas and approximately 50,476 students attend the school each year.

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

UT Austin General Dance Degrees Available

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

UT Austin General Dance Rankings

The dance movement studies major at UT Austin is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for General 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 Movement Studies Student Demographics at UT Austin

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the dance movement studies majors at The University of Texas at Austin.

UT Austin General Dance Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 13% of dance movement studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 88% went to women. The typical dance movement studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 11% men. So male students are more repesented at UT Austin since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

About 58% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in dance movement studies at UT Austin 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 movement studies bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's in dance movement studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	14
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

UT Austin General Dance Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of dance movement studies master's degrees went to men and 50% went to women.

In the dance movement studies master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 100% of degree recipients. That is 63% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a master's in dance movement studies.

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

Related Majors

Careers That Dance Movement Studies Grads May Go Into

A degree in dance movement studies can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TX, the home state for The University of Texas at Austin.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	6,240	$71,520
Choreographers	860	$61,850

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 Reid Sullivan under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.