Best Music Associate Degree Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Great Lakes Region that made our Best Music Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Music School for Your Associate Degree

Your choice of music for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality music 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

The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. 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.

Early-Career Earnings

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their associate degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their associate degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to music students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other music students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
• 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.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for music to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized music related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for music students working on their associate degree.

Insufficient Data for the Great Lakes Region

Unfortunately , we don't have enough info to produce a ranking of the top quality colleges for music in the Great Lakes Region . This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Great Lakes Region that both offer music and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

Instead, check out at some of our other Music rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Music ranking.

Best Music Colleges by State

Explore the best music colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Ohio	196	40
Michigan	192	27
Indiana	123	1
Illinois	119	25
Wisconsin	114	3

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Rankings in Majors Related to Music

One of 10 majors within the Visual & Performing Arts area of study, Music has other similar majors worth exploring.

Music Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
General Music	62
Other Music	19
Music Technology	13
Music Performance	9
Music Theory & Composition	4

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Design & Applied Arts	896
Fine & Studio Arts	219
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	95
General Visual & Performing Arts	33
Drama & Theater Arts	17
Arts & Media Management	16
Dance	1

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.