General Dance at University of Maryland - College Park

Every general dance school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the dance movement studies program at University of Maryland - College Park stacks up to those at other schools.

UMCP is located in College Park, Maryland and approximately 40,709 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.

UMCP General Dance Degrees Available

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

UMCP General Dance Rankings

The dance movement studies major at UMCP 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 UMCP

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the dance movement studies majors at University of Maryland - College Park.

UMCP General Dance Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 18% of dance movement studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 82% 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 UMCP since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 36% 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 University of Maryland - College Park with a bachelor's in dance movement studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

UMCP General Dance Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 0% of dance movement studies master's degrees went to men and 100% 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 University of Maryland - College Park 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 MD, the home state for University of Maryland - College Park.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	1,850	$74,160

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 Bgervais under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.