2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Music Education in New Jersey

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Teacher Education Major in New Jersey” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across New Jersey, there were 45 music education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 music education graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,237 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Teacher Education Major in New Jersey” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in music education. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in music education.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Teacher Education Major in New Jersey

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Teacher Education Major in New Jersey”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Music Education in New Jersey

1

Rider University
Lawrenceville, New Jersey

#11 overall quality in New Jersey

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Teacher Education Major in New Jersey that were part of this year’s ranking, Rider University landed the #1 spot on the list. Rider University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. The school has a small population, and it awarded 12 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full Rider University Music Education Report

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New Jersey City University
Jersey City, New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New Jersey City University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Teacher Education Major in New Jersey list. NJCU is a medium-sized school located in Jersey City, New Jersey that handed out 0 masters’s music teacher education degrees in 2020-2021.

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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.