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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 Southeast 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 Southeast region, there were 1,583 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 88 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,674 and $121,130 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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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 Southeast Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Shenandoah University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Southeast Region list. Shenandoah University is located in Winchester, Virginia and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 11 doctorate’s music performance degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Music Performance at Shenandoah University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern Mississippi. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Southeast Region. This fairly large school is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and it awarded 8 doctorate’s music performance degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Music Performance at University of Southern Mississippi
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida State University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Tallahassee, Florida, this large public school handed out 17 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s music performance students 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 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Florida State Music Performance Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Southeast Region list. Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College is a large public school situated in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It awarded 16 doctorate’s music performance degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.8% 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 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Music Performance Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Miami. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Southeast Region. U Miami is a fairly large school located in Coral Gables, Florida that handed out 11 doctorate’s music performance degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%.
Full U Miami Music Performance Report
University of North Carolina at Greensboro did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #6. This fairly large school is located in Greensboro, North Carolina, and it awarded 16 doctorate’s music performance degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Music Performance at UNC Greensboro
University of South Carolina - Columbia came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Southeast Region ranking. Columbia, South Carolina is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s music performance degrees to 9 students in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.6% 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%.
Full University of South Carolina - Columbia Music Performance Report
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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.
