2025 Best Music History Bachelor's Degree Schools
14
Colleges in the United States
144
Bachelor's Degrees
Music History isn't the most popular bachelor's program in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #653 in popularity out of 1232 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.
College Factual looked at 14 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Music History Bachelor's Degree Schools ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 144 bachelor's degrees in music history during the <nil> academic year.
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Featured Music History Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
MBA in Music Business
Earn the music business degree that fits into the business world – and partners Southern New Hampshire University with world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
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Choosing a Great Music History School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The music history bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality music history program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
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 much a school focuses on music history students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of music history students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
- 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 music history related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for music history students working on their bachelor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Music History Bachelor's Degree Schools list to help you make the college decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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Featured Music History Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
MBA in Music Business
Earn the music business degree that fits into the business world – and partners Southern New Hampshire University with world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
Learn More