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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Music Performance is the 116th most popular major in the country with 7,281 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,574 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 146 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,470 and $126,402 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in music performance. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in music performance.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree music performance students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Cleveland Institute of Music. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Great Lakes Region. Cleveland Institute of Music is located in Cleveland, Ohio and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 1 doctorate’s music performance degrees to qualified students.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 100%.
Full Cleveland Institute of Music Music Performance Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Great Lakes Region list. East Lansing, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s music performance degrees to 38 students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Michigan State Music Performance Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Indiana University - Bloomington. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Great Lakes Region. Bloomington, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s music performance degrees to 41 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.
Read more about Music Performance at IU Bloomington
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Cincinnati - Main Campus landed the #4 spot on the list. University of Cincinnati - Main Campus is a large school located in Cincinnati, Ohio that handed out 30 doctorate’s music performance degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.
Full UC Music Performance Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Madison, Wisconsin is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s music performance degrees to 19 students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.2% 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%.
Read more about Music Performance at UW - Madison
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Great Lakes Region list. U-M is a large public school situated in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It awarded 16 doctorate’s music performance degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Music Performance Report
Northwestern University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Northwestern is a private not-for-profit institution located in Evanston, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.1% 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 99%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Music Performance at Northwestern
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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.
