2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Music Education in the Southeast Region

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Music Education is the 151st most popular major in the country with 4,761 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southeast region, there were 1,182 music education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 3 music education graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,328 and $20,384 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Teacher Education Major in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in music education. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their music education program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Teacher Education Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree music teacher education students.

Top 3 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Music Education in the Southeast Region

1

Coahoma Community College
Clarksdale, Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Coahoma Community College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Teacher Education Major in the Southeast Region. This small school is located in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and it awarded 3 associates’s music teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Music Education at Coahoma Community College

2

Copiah-Lincoln Community College
Wesson, Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Copiah-Lincoln Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Teacher Education Major in the Southeast Region. Wesson, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s music teacher education degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Full Copiah-Lincoln Community College Music Education Report

2

Welch College
Gallatin, Tennessee

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Teacher Education Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Welch College landed the #2 spot on the list. Welch College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Gallatin, Tennessee. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Music Education at Welch College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Music Education

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

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