Dance at University of Southern California

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

USC is located in Los Angeles, California and has a total student population of 46,287. Of the 5,745 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Southern California in 2021, 21 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.

USC Dance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Dance

USC Dance Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The dance major at USC 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
Most Popular Dance Bachelor’s Degree Schools	32
	45

Dance Student Demographics at USC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the dance majors at University of Southern California.

USC Dance Bachelor’s Program

The dance program at USC awarded 21 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 52% of these degrees went to men with the other 48% going to women. The typical dance bachelor's degree program is made up of only 12% men. So male students are more repesented at USC since its program graduates 41% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% 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 Southern California with a bachelor's in dance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	10
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

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

Related Majors

• Other Visual Art
• General Visual & Performing Arts
• Design & Applied Arts
• Fine & Studio Arts
• Arts & Media Management

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 CA, the home state for University of Southern California.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	9,710	$115,460
Choreographers	410	$70,020

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 Original uploader was Padsquad19 at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.