2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Music Major in District of Columbia

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General Music is the 73rd most popular major in the country with 11,168 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across District of Columbia, there were 54 general music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 general music graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,686 and $62,807 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Music Major in District of Columbia” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general music. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general music program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Music Major in District of Columbia

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Music Major in District of Columbia”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Music in District of Columbia

1

Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia

#4 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Catholic University of America. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Music Major in District of Columbia list. Catholic University of America is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 2 masters’s general music degrees in 2021-2022.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Music at CUA

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Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

#6 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Howard University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Music Major in District of Columbia list. Howard University is located in Washington, District of Columbia and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 1 masters’s general music degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Howard General Music Report

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.