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Ranked Colleges
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 7,281 people earned their degree in music performance, making the major the 116th most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 559 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 15 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,470 and $116,265 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer 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 following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the New England Region”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston University landed the #1 spot on the list. Boston University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Boston, Massachusetts. The school has a large population, and it awarded 15 doctorate’s degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #2 spot on the list. UCONN is located in Storrs, Connecticut and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 2 doctorate’s music performance degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
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Notes and References
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.
