2024 Best General Music Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region
4
Colleges in the Southwest Region
230
Associate Degrees
an associate degree in
general music is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #114 out of 1020 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for general music students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 230 associate degrees in general music during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great General Music School for Your Associate Degree
The general music associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality general music program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a college's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general music students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other general music students want to attend this school to pursue a associate 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.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general music related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general music students working on their associate degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
The general music school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best General Music Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region.
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