2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conducting Major in California

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conducting Major in California” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 152 people earned their degree in conducting, making the major the 878th most popular in the United States.

Across California, there were 3 conducting graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 conducting graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,735 and $51,649 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conducting Major in California” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in conducting. That schools that top this list have a program in conducting in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conducting Major in California

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conducting Major in California”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Conducting in California

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University of Redlands
Redlands, California

Top 20% overall quality in California

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conducting Major in California that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Redlands landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Redlands is a private not-for-profit institution located in Redlands, California. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full University of Redlands Conducting Report

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San Francisco Conservatory of Music
San Francisco, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend San Francisco Conservatory of Music. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Conducting Major in California. San Francisco Conservatory of Music is a private not-for-profit institution located in San Francisco, California. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Conducting at San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.