graduate dance admissions

• How to Apply
• Audition Information
• Placement Classes
• Graduate Curriculums
• Graduate Course Descriptions
• MFA Qualifying Examination
• Frequently Asked Questions

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many dance students are there currently?
There are about 75 undergraduates and about 55 graduate students divided between the graduate programs.

What are the TOEFL requirements?
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is required of all applicants whose native language is not English. Applicants must submit scores of 575 on the paper-based version or 230 on the computer-based version of the TOEFL examination in order to be considered for admission.

NOTE: Any student admitted with a TOEFL score below 600 on the paper-based or 250 on the computer-based examination must pass an English skills course or successfully pass the SPEAK test during the first semester of enrollment at Temple University.

TOEFL Exam Information

What are the MAT or GRE requirements?

Applicants for the graduate dance programs are required to submit scores from either the GRE or MAT standardized tests. Scores should be in the 50th percentile.

GRE Exam Information

MAT Exam Information

What type of performances can I participate in?
The Conwell Dance Theater season has many opportunities for students to perform and choreograph. A typical season usually features two student concerts, two Master of Fine Arts thesis concerts, two Bachelor of Fine Arts senior concerts, a faculty dance concert, and an alumni dance concert. Added to this are performances by guest artists, repertory showings, and informal student choreography performances.

Each year the department brings in guest artists for master classes and residencies. Past guest artists include Ruth Andrien, a former dancer with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, who taught classes and reconstructed Esplanade, and Nina Watt from the Jose Limón Dance Company who reconstructed There is a Time on current dance students.

What are your graduates doing?
Graduates of the MFA, EdM, and PhD programs are doing a lot of different things. Our graduates perform in companies, start their own companies, do independent work as performers and/or choreographers, open dance studios, teach in higher education and in K-12, work backstage in production/lighting design, work in arts administration/arts advocacy, etc.