There are many universities for sports dance candidates to take the exam, and all universities with dance majors can take the exam, such as Beijing Dance Academy, PLA Art Academy, Minzu University of China, Sichuan Normal University Dance Academy, Shanghai Dance Academy, Guangdong Dance Academy, Shenyang Conservatory of Music, Capital Normal University, Guangxi Art Academy, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin Institute of Physical Education, Tianjin Conservatory of Music, Northwest University for Nationalities Dance Academy, Hebei Institute of Physical Education, Jilin Art Academy, etc.

Sports dances include modern dance, Latin dance, waltz, Viennese waltz, tango, foxtrot, quickstep, rumba, cha-cha, samba, bullfight and swing dance. Sports dance, also known as international standard ballroom dance, is one of the sports events and a duet competition with men and women as partners. Sports dance is divided into two groups, a total of ten dances. In fact, college sports dance includes modern dance and Latin dance, but many compulsory courses in colleges refer to Latin dance.

Sports dance competitions are divided into team competitions and individual competitions, which are conducted in accordance with the procedures of preliminaries, rematch, rematch and finals. The team competition consists of 8 pairs of male and female athletes from each participating unit, and the competition is conducted in order. Individual competition is divided into professional group and amateur group, and they compete with different requirements respectively. The music of sports dance does not exceed 4 minutes and 30 seconds. Depending on the scale of the competition, there will be 5-9 referees, who will score according to the basic skills, musical expression, dance style, dance arrangement, live performance and stadium effect stipulated by international referee standards. But different dance competitions have different rules. Generally, the size of the competition venue is 23m long and15m wide.