2023 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Music Education in Mississippi

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Music Teacher Education Major in Mississippi for a Doctorate” 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 Mississippi, there were 149 music education graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 music education graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,513 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Music Teacher Education Major in Mississippi for a Doctorate” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in music education. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in music education.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Most Well Attended Music Teacher Education Major in Mississippi for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for mississippi doctor’s degree music teacher education students.

Top 2 Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Music Education in Mississippi

1

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi

#5 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Mississippi. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Music Teacher Education Major in Mississippi for a Doctorate list. Hattiesburg, Mississippi is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s music teacher education degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Music Education at Southern Miss

2

Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, Mississippi

#1 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi State University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Music Teacher Education Major in Mississippi for a Doctorate. Mississippi State University is located in Mississippi State, Mississippi and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 31 doctorate’s music teacher education degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Music Education at Mississippi State University

• Most Popular Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Music Education in the Southeast Region
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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.