2025 Best Jazz Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Ohio

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in jazz studies, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #419 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Ohio to determine which ones were the best for jazz studies students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 28 bachelor's degrees in jazz studies during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Jazz Studies School for Your Bachelor's Degree

Your choice of jazz studies for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality jazz program can vary widely even among the top schools. 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 make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to jazz studies students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other jazz studies students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized jazz studies related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for jazz studies students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Jazz Studies Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Jazz Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in Ohio ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don't forget it.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Jazz Studies in Ohio

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in jazz studies.

Top Ohio Schools for a Bachelor's in Jazz

1

Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH

21 Annual Graduates

Oberlin College is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in jazz studies. Located in the fringe town of Oberlin, Oberlin is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in jazz studies from Oberlin College

2

Ohio State University - Main Campus
Columbus, OH

2 Annual Graduates

Ohio State University - Main Campus is a good decision for individuals interested in a bachelor's degree in jazz studies. Ohio State is a very large public university located in the city of Columbus.More information about a bachelor’s in jazz studies from Ohio State University - Main Campus

3

Bowling Green State University - Main Campus
Bowling Green, OH

2 Annual Graduates

It's hard to beat Bowling Green State University - Main Campus if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in jazz studies. BGSU is a fairly large public university located in the town of Bowling Green.More information about a bachelor’s in jazz studies from Bowling Green State University - Main Campus

Best Jazz Studies Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Jazz Studies Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Michigan	629	12
Illinois	558	26
Indiana	535	7

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Rankings in Majors Related to Jazz

Jazz Studies is one of 17 different types of Music programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Jazz

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Music Performance	285
General Music	159
Other Music	41
Music Theory & Composition	37
Music Technology	26
Voice Performance	23
Music Pedagogy	21
Keyboard Instruments	7
Music History	3

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.