2025 Best Music Master's Degree Schools in Maryland

If you plan on getting your master's degree in music, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #36 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Music Master's Degree Schools in Maryland ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 133 master's degrees in music during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Master’s Degree Schools List

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on music students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other music students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for music to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized music related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for music students working on their master's degree.

More Ways to Rank Music Schools

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 Master's Degree Schools in Maryland list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Music in Maryland

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in music.

Top Maryland Schools for a Master's in Music

1

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD

86 Annual Graduates

$30,761 Median Starting Salary

Any student pursuing a degree in a master's degree in music has to check out Johns Hopkins University. Located in the large city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit university with a very large student population.

Master's graduates who receive their degree from the music program make an average of $30,761 for their early career.

More information about a master’s in music from Johns Hopkins University

2

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD

39 Annual Graduates

$39,616 Median Starting Salary

It's difficult to beat University of Maryland - College Park if you wish to pursue a master's degree in music. Located in the large suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Those music students who get their master's degree from University of Maryland - College Park earn $4,428 more than the standard music graduate.

More information about a master’s in music from University of Maryland - College Park

Best Music Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Music Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	261	811
Pennsylvania	248	225
New Jersey	188	95
District of Columbia	154	12
Delaware	109	26

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Music Related Rankings by Major

One of 10 majors within the Visual & Performing Arts area of study, Music has other similar majors worth exploring.

Music Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Music Performance	67
General Music	45
Music Theory & Composition	13
Music History	3
Other Music	3
Musicology & Ethnomusicology	2

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Design & Applied Arts	200
Fine & Studio Arts	54
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	37
Drama & Theater Arts	9
Arts & Media Management	4
Other Visual Art	4
Dance	2

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.