Dance at The University of Texas at El Paso

What traits are you looking for in a dance school? To help you decide if The University of Texas at El Paso is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's dance program.

UTEP is located in El Paso, Texas and approximately 24,879 students attend the school each year. Of the 3,981 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from The University of Texas at El Paso in 2021, 11 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.

UTEP Dance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Dance

UTEP Dance Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the dance progam at UTEP compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 UTEP 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
	38
Most Focused Dance Schools	175

Dance Student Demographics at UTEP

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the dance majors at The University of Texas at El Paso.

UTEP Dance Bachelor’s Program

Of the 11 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Dance from UTEP in 2020-2021, 18% were men and 82% were women. The typical dance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 12% men. So male students are more repesented at UTEP since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 62% 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 The University of Texas at El Paso with a bachelor's in dance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	11
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Drama & Theater Arts
• Arts & Media Management
• Music
• Fine & Studio 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 TX, the home state for The University of Texas at El Paso.

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 Adrian Garcia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.