2025 Best Music Performance Associate Degree Schools
2Colleges in the United States
176Associate Degrees
If you plan on getting your associate degree in music performance, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #257 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of music performance. Combined, these schools handed out 176 associate degrees in music performance to qualified students.
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In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to music performance students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other music performance students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized music performance related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for music performance students working on their associate degree.
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 the Best Music Performance Associate Degree Schools.
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Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Earn the music business degree that fits into the business world – and partners Southern New Hampshire University with world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest of our data about colleges.