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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Michigan” 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 Michigan, there were 294 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 95 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,121 and $41,673 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Michigan” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in music performance. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in music performance.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Michigan”.
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, this large public school awarded 51 diplomas to qualified masters’s music performance students 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
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Michigan State University is a large public school situated in East Lansing, Michigan. It awarded 21 masters’s music performance degrees 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 University Music Performance Report
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, Western Michigan University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Kalamazoo, Michigan, this fairly large public school awarded 17 degrees to qualified masters’s music performance students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Central Michigan University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Michigan. Located in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, this fairly large public school handed out 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s music performance students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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 full report on Music Performance at Central Michigan
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Andrews University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Michigan list. Berrien Springs, Michigan is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s music performance degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Eastern Michigan University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Michigan ranking, coming in at #6. Located in Ypsilanti, Michigan, this fairly large public school awarded 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s music performance students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Music Performance at Eastern Michigan
Oakland University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Michigan ranking. Oakland University is a fairly large public school situated in Rochester Hills, Michigan. It awarded 1 masters’s music performance degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% 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%.
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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.
