2025 Best Music Performance Schools in the New England Region
9Colleges in the New England Region
559Music Performance Degrees Awarded
Music Performance is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #116 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 9 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of music performance. Combined, these schools handed out 559 degrees in music performance to qualified students.
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The music performance program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Music Performance rankings. For our Best Overall Music Performance School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 Best Music Performance Schools in the New England Region list to help you make the college decision.
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Earn the music business degree that fits into the business world – and partners Southern New Hampshire University with world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
Best Schools for Music Performance in the New England Region
The schools below may not offer all types of music performance degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top New England Region Schools in Music Performance
It is hard to beat Boston University if you wish to pursue a degree in music performance. Located in the large city of Boston, Boston U is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #23 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Boston U is a great university overall.
There were roughly 98 music performance students who graduated with this degree at Boston U in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in music performance has to check out Berklee College of Music. Berklee College of Music is a medium-sized private not-for-profit college located in the city of Boston.
There were roughly 346 music performance students who graduated with this degree at Berklee College of Music in the most recent year we have data available.
Earn the music business degree that fits into the business world – and partners Southern New Hampshire University with world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
It is difficult to beat University of Massachusetts Amherst if you wish to pursue a degree in music performance. UMass Amherst is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Amherst. A Best Colleges rank of #60 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UMass Amherst is a great university overall.
There were roughly 27 music performance students who graduated with this degree at UMass Amherst in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the distant town of Bennington, Bennington is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly small student population. This college ranks 3rd out of 9 colleges for overall quality in the state of Vermont.
There were about 1 music performance students who graduated with this degree at Bennington in the most recent data year.
UMass Lowell is a large public university located in the suburb of Lowell. A Best Colleges rank of #276 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UMass Lowell is a great university overall.
There were approximately 12 music performance students who graduated with this degree at UMass Lowell in the most recent year we have data available.
Keene State is a small public college located in the town of Keene. This college ranks 8th out of 17 colleges for overall quality in the state of New Hampshire.
There were approximately 2 music performance students who graduated with this degree at Keene State in the most recent year we have data available.
RIC is a medium-sized public college located in the suburb of Providence. This college ranks 6th out of 9 colleges for overall quality in the state of Rhode Island.
There were about 4 music performance students who graduated with this degree at RIC in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Southern Maine is a moderately-sized public university located in the small city of Portland. This university ranks 11th out of 19 colleges for overall quality in the state of Maine.
There were roughly 12 music performance students who graduated with this degree at University of Southern Maine in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
The music performance program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Music Performance rankings. For our Best Overall Music Performance School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
