Bachelor of fine arts in dance

The Bachelor of fine arts program in dance is for students seeking careers as professional dance artists who wish to pursue their goals within a major research university's artistic and intellectual climate. The faculty’s diverse interests and accomplishments as artists, scholars, and educators ensure expert direction in all three curriculum areas: technique and performance, choreography, and theoretical studies. Students applying to the Bachelor of fine arts in dance must apply to the Mason Gross School of the Arts and participate in an audition.

Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, comprises a vibrant community of nearly 1,200 makers—dancers, filmmakers, musicians, theatre artists, visual artists, and designers unafraid to get their hands dirty as they collaborate with our renowned faculty of professional working artists.

Mason Gross graduates emerge not merely with a degree but, ideally, with a commitment to making innovative and purposeful contributions to the wider community—onstage, backstage, in a gallery, a classroom, a studio, and beyond.

The goal: to cultivate thinking, thoughtful makers embracing art as an ever-changing field of possibility.

Just 45 minutes from the crackling energy of New York City’s arts scene, the school serves as the flagship public arts conservatory at Rutgers, a Big Ten research university serving more than 71,000 students. Rutgers is the nation’s eighth-oldest institution of higher learning and a prestigious Association of American Universities.