Ranked #116 in popularity, music performance is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual reviewed 4 schools in Michigan to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of music performance. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 294 degrees in music performance annually.
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Your choice of music performance school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for music performance schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Schools in Michigan.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the music performance degrees they offer, see the list below.
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor is a wonderful decision for students pursuing a degree in music performance. U-M is a fairly large public university located in the city of Ann Arbor. A Best Colleges rank of #22 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means U-M is a great university overall.
There were approximately 127 music performance students who graduated with this degree at U-M in the most recent year we have data available.
Michigan State University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in music performance. Located in the small city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #54 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Michigan State is a great university overall.
There were approximately 89 music performance students who graduated with this degree at Michigan State in the most recent data year.
Earn the music business degree that fits into the business world – and partners Southern New Hampshire University with world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
Western Michigan University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in music performance. Located in the city of Kalamazoo, WMU is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 4th out of 56 schools for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were about 38 music performance students who graduated with this degree at WMU in the most recent data year.
Oakland University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in music performance. Oakland is a large public university located in the large suburb of Rochester Hills. This university ranks 10th out of 56 colleges for overall quality in the state of Michigan.
There were approximately 7 music performance students who graduated with this degree at Oakland in the most recent data year.
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.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
Your choice of music performance school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for music performance schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
