2025 Best Music Pedagogy Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
4Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
28Music Pedagogy Degrees Awarded
Music Pedagogy isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #710 in popularity out of 1506 majors in the country. As such, the degree program isn't offered at every college in the United States, but there are schools that do have a program in the field that are top-notch when it comes to quality.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Music Pedagogy Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 28 degrees in music pedagogy annually.
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Your choice of music pedagogy school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for music pedagogy schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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The music pedagogy school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Music Pedagogy Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region.
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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 Pedagogy in the Middle Atlantic 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 pedagogy degrees they offer, see the list below.
Top Middle Atlantic Region Schools in Music Pedagogy
Any student pursuing a degree in music pedagogy has to check out Carnegie Mellon University. Carnegie Mellon is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Pittsburgh. A Best Colleges rank of #8 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Carnegie Mellon is a great university overall.
There were about 3 music pedagogy students who graduated with this degree at Carnegie Mellon in the most recent data year.
Ithaca College is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in music pedagogy. Located in the suburb of Ithaca, Ithaca is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #203 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Ithaca is a great college overall.
There were about 6 music pedagogy students who graduated with this degree at Ithaca in the most recent year we have data available.
Earn the music business degree that fits into the business world – and partners Southern New Hampshire University with world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
It's difficult to beat Rider University if you wish to pursue a degree in music pedagogy. Located in the suburb of Lawrenceville, Rider is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 11th out of 45 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Jersey.
There were roughly 8 music pedagogy students who graduated with this degree at Rider in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in music pedagogy needs to look into University of Maryland - Baltimore County. UMBC is a large public university located in the large suburb of Baltimore. This university ranks 6th out of 35 schools for overall quality in the state of Maryland.
There were approximately 4 music pedagogy students who graduated with this degree at UMBC in the most recent year we have data available.
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).