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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking.
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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 197 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 41 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,612 and $39,317 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Rocky Mountains Region” ranking looked at 3 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.
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The music performance school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Rocky Mountains Region”.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region master’s degree music performance students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Boulder. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. CU - Boulder is a large school located in Boulder, Colorado that handed out 32 masters’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 undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full CU - Boulder Music Performance Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boise State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Rocky Mountains Region. Located in Boise, Idaho, this large public school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s music performance students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full Boise State University Music Performance Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Brigham Young University - Provo landed the #3 spot on the list. BYU is located in Provo, Utah and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 7 masters’s music performance degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.
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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.
