2024 Best General Music Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region
8
Colleges in the Far Western US Region
49
Doctor's Degrees
General Music is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #50 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 8 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Music Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 49 doctor's degrees in general music during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Choosing a Great General Music School for Your Doctor's Degree
The general music doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on general music students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other general music students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general music related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general music students working on their doctor's degree.
More Ways to Rank General Music Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best General Music Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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