Best Music Associate Degree Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Rocky Mountains Region that made our Best Music Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Music School for Your Associate Degree

The music associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of associate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their associate degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on music students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of music students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt music students go into to obtain their associate degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized music related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for music students working on their associate degree.

Insufficient Data for the Rocky Mountains Region

Due to absent data, we were not able to provide you with the music quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Rocky Mountains Region that both offer music and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

As an alternative, take a look at at some of our other Music rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Music ranking.

Best Music Colleges by State

Explore the best music colleges for a specific state in the Rocky Mountains Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Utah	147	38
Idaho	143	8
Wyoming	128	26
Colorado	102	6

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Music Related Rankings by Major

Music is one of 10 different types of Visual & Performing Arts programs to choose from.

Music Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Music	64
Music Technology	8
Keyboard Instruments	6

Majors Similar to Music

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Design & Applied Arts	340
Fine & Studio Arts	87
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	77
Drama & Theater Arts	67
Dance	29
General Visual & Performing Arts	5
Arts & Media Management	1

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.