2024 Best Music Education Master's Degree Schools in New York
15
Colleges in New York
253
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.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 15 schools in New York to determine which ones were the best for music education students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 253 master's degrees in music education during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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 take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination 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
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Music Education Master's Degree Schools in New York ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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