2024 Best Music Education Schools in the Plains States Region
79Colleges in the Plains States Region
663Music Teacher Education Degrees Awarded
A degree in music education is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #151 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 79 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Music Education Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 663 degrees in music education during the 2021-2022 academic year.
The music teacher education program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Music Education rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for music education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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Best Schools for Music Education in the Plains States Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the music teacher education degree levels they offer. Only those schools that rank in the top 15% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
12 Top Plains States Region Schools in Music Teacher Education
It's difficult to beat University of Nebraska - Lincoln if you wish to pursue a degree in music education. UNL is a fairly large public university located in the city of Lincoln. A Best Colleges rank of #138 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UNL is a great university overall.
There were approximately 25 music education students who graduated with this degree at UNL in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat University of Iowa if you wish to pursue a degree in music education. Iowa is a fairly large public university located in the city of Iowa City. A Best Colleges rank of #84 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Iowa is a great university overall.
There were approximately 16 music education students who graduated with this degree at Iowa in the most recent data year.
Minnesota State University - Mankato is a wonderful option for students interested in a degree in music education. Located in the small city of Mankato, Minnesota State Mankato is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #351 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Minnesota State Mankato is a great university overall.
There were approximately 9 music education students who graduated with this degree at Minnesota State Mankato in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat University of Minnesota - Twin Cities if you want to pursue a degree in music education. Located in the city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #51 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UMN Twin Cities is a great university overall.
There were roughly 6 music education students who graduated with this degree at UMN Twin Cities in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the city of Cedar Falls, UNI is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #199 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UNI is a great university overall.
There were approximately 25 music education students who graduated with this degree at UNI in the most recent data year.
Located in the city of Ames, Iowa State is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #75 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Iowa State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 13 music education students who graduated with this degree at Iowa State in the most recent data year.
Winona State is a medium-sized public university located in the distant town of Winona. This university ranks 17th out of 52 schools for overall quality in the state of Minnesota.
There were about 7 music education students who graduated with this degree at Winona State in the most recent data year.
Located in the distant town of Wayne, WSC is a public college with a small student population. This college ranks 9th out of 19 colleges for overall quality in the state of Nebraska.
There were roughly 10 music education students who graduated with this degree at WSC in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the fringe town of Saint Peter, Gustavus Adolphus is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 29th out of 52 colleges for overall quality in the state of Minnesota.
There were roughly 10 music education students who graduated with this degree at Gustavus Adolphus in the most recent year we have data available.
ESU is a moderately-sized public university located in the town of Emporia. This university ranks 8th out of 47 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kansas.
There were roughly 5 music education students who graduated with this degree at ESU in the most recent year we have data available.
These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Music Education Schools in the Plains States Region award.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
The music teacher education program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Music Education rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for music education schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
