2025 Best Keyboard Instruments Schools in California
4Colleges in California
46Keyboard Instruments Degrees Awarded
A degree in keyboard instruments is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #590 out of 1506 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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for keyboard instruments students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 46 degrees in keyboard instruments to qualified students.
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Your choice of keyboard instruments school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Keyboard Instruments School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Keyboard Instruments Schools in California list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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Earn the music business degree that fits into the business world – and partners Southern New Hampshire University with world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
Best Schools for Keyboard Instruments in California
If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the keyboard instruments degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of Southern California is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in keyboard instruments. USC is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Los Angeles. A Best Colleges rank of #13 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means USC is a great university overall.
There were approximately 21 keyboard instruments students who graduated with this degree at USC in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat San Francisco Conservatory of Music if you want to pursue a degree in keyboard instruments. SFCM is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the city of San Francisco.
There were approximately 15 keyboard instruments students who graduated with this degree at SFCM in the most recent data year.
Earn the music business degree that fits into the business world – and partners Southern New Hampshire University with world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
Every student pursuing a degree in keyboard instruments has to look into Chapman University. Chapman is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Orange. This university ranks 24th out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 5 keyboard instruments students who graduated with this degree at Chapman in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in keyboard instruments has to look into University of Redlands. Located in the small city of Redlands, University of Redlands is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 53rd out of 161 schools for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 2 keyboard instruments students who graduated with this degree at University of Redlands in the most recent data year.
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).
Your choice of keyboard instruments school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Keyboard Instruments School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
