2025 Best Music Performance Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
8Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
197Music Performance Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in music performance, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #116 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 8 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Music Performance Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 197 degrees in music performance to qualified students.
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Your choice of music performance school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Music Performance School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Music Performance Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that 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 Rocky Mountains Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the music performance degree levels they offer.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools in Music Performance
Brigham Young University - Provo is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in music performance. BYU is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Provo. A Best Colleges rank of #257 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means BYU is a great university overall.
There were about 12 music performance students who graduated with this degree at BYU in the most recent data year.
It is difficult to beat University of Denver if you want to pursue a degree in music performance. Located in the large city of Denver, DU is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #174 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means DU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 20 music performance students who graduated with this degree at DU 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.
Any student who is interested in music performance has to take a look at University of Colorado Boulder. CU - Boulder is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Boulder. A Best Colleges rank of #145 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means CU - Boulder is a great university overall.
There were about 79 music performance students who graduated with this degree at CU - Boulder in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in music performance needs to take a look at University of Wyoming. UW is a fairly large public university located in the town of Laramie. This university ranks 1st out of 7 schools for overall quality in the state of Wyoming.
There were about 2 music performance students who graduated with this degree at UW in the most recent year we have data available.
U of I is a fairly large public university located in the distant town of Moscow. This university ranks 2nd out of 10 schools for overall quality in the state of Idaho.
There were approximately 7 music performance students who graduated with this degree at U of I in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the midsize city of Boise, Boise State is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #512 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Boise State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 9 music performance students who graduated with this degree at Boise State in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the small city of Orem, UVU is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 7th out of 11 schools for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were approximately 9 music performance students who graduated with this degree at UVU in the most recent data year.
Located in the distant town of Rexburg, BYU - I is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population. This university ranks 5th out of 10 schools for overall quality in the state of Idaho.
There were roughly 33 music performance students who graduated with this degree at BYU - I 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).
Your choice of music performance school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Music Performance School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
