2023 Best Music Technology Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Middle Atlantic Region

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 Middle Atlantic Region for Music Technology for a Master’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Music Technology is the 334th most popular major in the country with 1,788 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 205 music technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Music Technology for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in music technology. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality music technology programs as well as strong veteran support.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the music technology program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Music Technology for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Music Technology for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Best Music Technology Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

University of Rochester
Rochester, New York

7 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

$14,872 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rochester. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Music Technology for a Master’s list. Rochester, New York is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s music technology degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at University of Rochester, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Music Technology Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.According to our most recent data, University of Rochester supports 11,741 students, and 7 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 3 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $14,872. On top of their other funding sources, 1 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full University of Rochester Veteran Student Life Report

2

Temple University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

830 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Temple University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in the Middle Atlantic Region for Music Technology for a Master’s. This large school is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 2 masters’s music technology degrees in 2020-2021.

Temple also took the #2 spot in our “Best Music Technology Master’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking.Of the 37,236 students enrolled at Temple University, 830 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 510 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $13,479. To help with additional expenses, 9 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program. Temple University offers credit for military training for eligible students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Temple University Veteran Student Life Report

• Best Music Technology Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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

Footnotes

• *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.