2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Music Education in the Plains States Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Plains States region, there were 562 music education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 music education graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,829 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in music education. That schools that top this list have a program in music education in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Music Education in the Plains States Region

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University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Dakota landed the #1 spot on the list. UND is located in Grand Forks, North Dakota and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 8 doctorate’s music teacher education degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full UND Music Education Report

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University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kansas. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Music Teacher Education Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Lawrence, Kansas, this large public school awarded 27 degrees to qualified doctorate’s music teacher education students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read full report on Music Education at KU

• Most Focused Doctor’s 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

• Credit for the banner image above goes to Aparajita Datta.