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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, veterans have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Music Performance for an Associate” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 7,335 people earned their degree in music performance, making the major the 116th most popular in the United States.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 1,635 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,077 and $19,490 respectively.
The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great music performance programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the music performance program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
One Size Does Not Fit All
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Music Performance for an Associate” list to help you make the college decision.
We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.
The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region associate degree vets studying music performance.
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Music Performance for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Milwaukee Area Technical College landed the #1 spot on the list. MATC is located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 associates’s music performance degrees to qualified students.
MATC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Music Performance Associate Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list.Among the 12,618 students enrolled at MATC, 333 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 132 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $1,896. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. MATC offers credit for military training for eligible students.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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.
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