Music Education is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #151 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Arizona to determine which ones were the best for music education students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 78 degrees in music education during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of music education school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Music Education School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Music Education Schools in Arizona list to help you make the college decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the music teacher education degrees they offer, see the list below.
Any student pursuing a degree in music education has to look into Northern Arizona University. NAU is a fairly large public university located in the city of Flagstaff. This university ranks 5th out of 26 colleges for overall quality in the state of Arizona.
There were about 18 music education students who graduated with this degree at NAU in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Arizona is a wonderful option for students pursuing a degree in music education. University of Arizona is a fairly large public university located in the city of Tucson. A Best Colleges rank of #133 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means University of Arizona is a great university overall.
There were roughly 9 music education students who graduated with this degree at University of Arizona in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student pursuing a degree in music education has to take a look at Arizona State University - Tempe. Located in the midsize city of Tempe, ASU - Tempe is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #119 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means ASU - Tempe is a great university overall.
There were roughly 40 music education students who graduated with this degree at ASU - Tempe in the most recent year we have data available.
Ottawa University - Phoenix is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in music education. Ottawa University - Phoenix is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Phoenix. This university ranks 26th out of 26 colleges for overall quality in the state of Arizona.
There were roughly 6 music education students who graduated with this degree at Ottawa University - Phoenix in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).