2024 Best General Music Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
3Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
60Associate Degrees
an associate degree in general music is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #114 out of 1020 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best General Music Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 60 associate degrees in general music to qualified students.
Choosing a Great General Music School for Your Associate Degree
The general music associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality general music program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general music students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - How many other general music students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general music related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general music students working on their associate degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best General Music Associate Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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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.