2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Music in Kentucky

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 Master’s Highly Focused on General Music Major in Kentucky” ranking is part of that endeavor.

General Music is the 73rd most popular major in the country with 11,232 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across Kentucky, there were 196 general music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 32 general music graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,023 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Music Major in Kentucky” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in general music. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general music program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Music Major in Kentucky

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

Top 5 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Music in Kentucky

1

University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky

#2 overall quality in Kentucky

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Louisville. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Music Major in Kentucky list. University of Louisville is located in Louisville, Kentucky and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 25 masters’s general music degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full University of Louisville General Music Report

2

Morehead State University
Morehead, Kentucky

#20 overall quality in Kentucky

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Morehead State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Music Major in Kentucky. Morehead State University is a medium-sized school located in Morehead, Kentucky that handed out 4 masters’s general music degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Morehead State University General Music Report

3

Eastern Kentucky University
Richmond, Kentucky

#11 overall quality in Kentucky

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Kentucky University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Music Major in Kentucky list. Eastern Kentucky University is located in Richmond, Kentucky and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s general music degrees to qualified students.

Read more about General Music at Eastern

4

University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

#1 overall quality in Kentucky

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Kentucky. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Music Major in Kentucky list. University of Kentucky is located in Lexington, Kentucky and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 masters’s general music degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Music at University of Kentucky

4

Campbellsville University
Campbellsville, Kentucky

#12 overall quality in Kentucky

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on General Music Major in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, Campbellsville University landed the #4 spot on the list. Campbellsville University is located in Campbellsville, Kentucky and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 masters’s general music degrees to qualified students.

Read full report on General Music at Campbellsville University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Music in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for General Music

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.