2025 Best Jazz Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
3Colleges in the Southeast Region
27Bachelor's Degrees
a bachelor's degree in jazz studies is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #419 out of 1232 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Jazz Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 27 bachelor's degrees in jazz studies to qualified students.
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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. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for jazz studies students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Jazz Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you.
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Featured Jazz Studies Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Earn the music business degree that fits into the business world – and partners Southern New Hampshire University with world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
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.