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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the New England Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 191 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,593 and $42,781 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the New England 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.
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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 the New England Region”.
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Longy School of Music of Bard College landed the #1 spot on the list. Longy is a private not-for-profit institution located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on Music Performance at Longy
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Berklee College of Music landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 102 masters’s music performance degrees in 2021-2022.
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. 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%.
Read full report on Music Performance at Berklee College of Music
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Yale University landed the #3 spot on the list. Yale is a fairly large school located in New Haven, Connecticut that handed out 24 masters’s music performance degrees in 2021-2022.
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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 98%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Full Yale University Music Performance Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the New England Region list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s music performance degrees to 46 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
Read more about Music Performance at Boston U
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Harvard University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the New England Region list. This large school is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and it awarded 13 masters’s music performance degrees in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 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 0.3% 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 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Music Performance at Harvard
University of Maine landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the New England Region ranking. This fairly large school is located in Orono, Maine, and it awarded 2 masters’s music performance degrees in 2021-2022.
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 UMaine Music Performance Report
With a ranking of #7, University of Southern Maine did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the New England Region list. University of Southern Maine is a medium-sized public school situated in Portland, Maine. It awarded 1 masters’s music performance degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Music Performance at University of Southern Maine
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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.
