Dance at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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

UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and has a total student population of 52,679.

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

UIUC Dance Degrees Available

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

UIUC Dance Rankings

The dance major at UIUC 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 UIUC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the dance majors at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

UIUC 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 UIUC since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

About 56% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in dance at UIUC are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% 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 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a bachelor's in dance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	9
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

UIUC Dance Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of dance master's degrees went to men and 67% went to women.

In the dance master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 67% of degree recipients. That is 30% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a master's in dance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	1
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 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
General Dance	14

Related Majors

• Crafts, Folk Art & Artisanry
• Film, Video & Photographic Arts
• Drama & Theater Arts
• Fine & Studio Arts
• Design & Applied 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 IL, the home state for University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	3,940	$68,360
Choreographers	80	$35,490

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 Beyond My ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.