A degree in voice performance is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #528 out of 1506 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Voice Performance Schools in Illinois ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 59 degrees in voice performance to qualified students.
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The voice program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Voice Performance rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for voice performance schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each 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 Voice Performance Schools in Illinois 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.
The schools below may not offer all types of voice degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in voice performance has to check out Northwestern University. Located in the city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #5 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Northwestern is a great university overall.
There were approximately 36 voice performance students who graduated with this degree at Northwestern in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in voice performance has to look into University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. UIUC is a fairly large public university located in the small city of Champaign. This university ranks 3rd out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were about 2 voice performance students who graduated with this degree at UIUC 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.
It's difficult to beat Roosevelt University if you wish to pursue a degree in voice performance. Roosevelt is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Chicago. This university ranks 24th out of 85 colleges for overall quality in the state of Illinois.
There were about 14 voice performance students who graduated with this degree at Roosevelt in the most recent data year.
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 voice program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Voice Performance rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for voice performance schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
