2025 Best Music History Schools in the Southeast Region
3Colleges in the Southeast Region
46Music History Degrees Awarded
Music History is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #840 out of the 1506 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for music history students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 46 degrees in music history to qualified students.
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Your choice of music history school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Music History School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Music History Schools in the Southeast Region 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 Music History in the Southeast Region
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 music history degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of Kentucky is a good choice for students pursuing a degree in music history. Located in the large city of Lexington, UK is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #220 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UK is a great university overall.
There were approximately 14 music history students who graduated with this degree at UK in the most recent year we have data available.
It is difficult to beat West Virginia University if you wish to pursue a degree in music history. WVU is a very large public university located in the city of Morgantown. This university ranks 2nd out of 25 colleges for overall quality in the state of West Virginia.
There were about 11 music history students who graduated with this degree at WVU 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.
Bob Jones University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in music history. Located in the city of Greenville, Bob Jones University is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 21st out of 45 schools for overall quality in the state of South Carolina.
There were about 10 music history students who graduated with this degree at Bob Jones University 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 music history school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Music History School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
