Best Music Doctor’s Degree Colleges in Pennsylvania

Unfortunately, there were no schools in Pennsylvania that made our Best Music Doctor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Music School for Your Doctor's Degree

The music doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

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 - The number of music students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• 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 doctor'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 doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for Pennsylvania

Because of absent data, we were not able to show you the music quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in Pennsylvania that both offer music and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

As an alternative, look at at some of our other Music rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Music ranking.

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	174	162
Maryland	119	23
New Jersey	115	24
District of Columbia	81	17

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Music Related Rankings by Major

Music is one of 10 different types of Visual & Performing Arts programs to choose from.

Music Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Music	15
Keyboard Instruments	4

Majors Similar to Music

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Fine & Studio Arts	18
Dance	4
Design & Applied Arts	3
Film, Video & Photographic Arts	3
Drama & Theater Arts	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.