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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Massachusetts” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Music Performance is the 116th most popular major in the country with 7,281 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Massachusetts, there were 506 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 287 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,973 and $23,950 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Massachusetts” ranking, we looked at 7 colleges that offer a degree in music performance. That schools that top this list have a program in music performance in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for massachusetts bachelor’s degree music performance students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Berklee College of Music. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Massachusetts. Berklee College of Music is a medium-sized school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 219 bachelors’s music performance degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Gordon College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Massachusetts. This small school is located in Wenham, Massachusetts, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s music performance degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Massachusetts list. Amherst, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s music performance degrees to 27 students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boston University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Massachusetts. Boston University is located in Boston, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 26 bachelors’s music performance degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Emerson College landed the #5 spot on the list. Emerson is a medium-sized school located in Boston, Massachusetts that handed out 2 bachelors’s music performance degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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University of Massachusetts - Lowell ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Massachusetts list. Located in Lowell, Massachusetts, this fairly large public school handed out 12 degrees to qualified bachelors’s music performance students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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Eastern Nazarene College came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Massachusetts ranking. Quincy, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s music performance degrees to 1 students in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
