If you plan on majoring in other music, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #407 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
There was only one school in Massachusetts to review for the 2025 Best Other Music Schools in Massachusetts ranking.
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The schools below may not offer all types of other music degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Berklee College of Music is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in other music. Located in the large city of Boston, Berklee College of Music is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a degree in other music from Berklee College of Music
Best Other Music Colleges in the New England Region
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).