2024 Best Music Education Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
18
Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
189
Master's Degrees
a master's degree in
music education is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #130 out of 1172 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.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 18 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Music Education Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 189 master's degrees in music education to qualified students.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Music Education School for Your Master's Degree
The music teacher education master'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. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of various 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 much a school focuses on music education students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other music education 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.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized music education related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for music education students working on their master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
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 Education Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list to help you make the college decision.
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