[Objective]To investigate and compare the characteristics of hip injury between dance majors and non-dance majors in an art college.[Methods]A total of 580 students from an art college were included in this study,including 107 in the dance majors and 473 in the non-dance majors.The characteristics of hip sports injury were investigated and compared between the two groups.[Results]The danc-er proved significantly less than the non-dancer in terms of age[(23.1±3.0)years vs(25.4±1.7)years,P<0.001]and BMI[(20.6±2.6)kg/m2 vs(21.5±2.3)kg/m2,P=0.001].The dancer had significantly higher incidence of hip pain than the non-dancer[both hips(15.6%vs 11.2%,P<0.05),left hip(7.5%vs 5.7%,P<0.05),right hip(12.1%vs 4.70%,P<0.05)].The top three hip pain characteristics of dance majors were hip sore in 18 cases(16.8%),tingling in 15 cases(14.0%)and dull pain in 11 cases(10.3%).Regarding to hip symptoms,snapping hip was the most important symptom,while walking,cross-legged,squatting and other factors were more likely to aggravate the snapping hip of the dancer(P<0.05).Students of dance majors usually feel unstable(4.7%),hip noose and stuck(6.5%)and other symptoms(4.7%),which will affect students in exercise(28.0%)(P<0.05).Training factors(98.1%),sports factors(39.9%)and personal factors(41.9%)are the main ele-ments that induce hip injury in the dancers.[Conclusion]Hip injury is a more common injury of dance majors in this school,usually involv-ing the right hip,which affects the exercise training of students.The main injury factors of dance professional students are not warm-up properly in place before exercise,too much training intensity and their own movement mistakes.