2025 Best Brass Instruments Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region

You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a degree in brass instruments. It is ranked #1103 out of 1506 major degree programs in terms of popularity. While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Middle Atlantic Region to determine which ones were the best for brass instruments students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 38 degrees in brass instruments annually.

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Pick Your Brass Instruments Degree Level

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Brass Instruments Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list to help you make the college decision. More interested in schools in a specific area of the country? Filter this list by region or state.

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Best Schools for Brass Instruments in the Middle Atlantic Region

The schools below may not offer all types of brass instruments degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.

Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools in Brass Instruments

1

The Juilliard School
New York, NY

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

23.5% Growth in Graduates

The Juilliard School is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in brass instruments. Juilliard is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of New York.More information about a degree in brass instruments from The Juilliard School

2

Manhattan School of Music
New York, NY

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

64.3% Growth in Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in brass instruments has to take a look at Manhattan School of Music. Manhattan School of Music is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of New York.More information about a degree in brass instruments from Manhattan School of Music

Best Brass Instruments Colleges by State

Explore the best brass instruments schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	1,026	19

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Brass Instruments Related Rankings by Major

Brass Instruments is one of 17 different types of Music programs to choose from.

Most Popular Majors Related to Brass Instruments

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Music	1,508
Music Performance	1,474
Voice Performance	252
Music Theory & Composition	240
Music Technology	213
Stringed Instruments	203
Jazz Studies	202
Keyboard Instruments	180
Other Music	131
Music History	89

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Notes and References

• 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.