2024 Best Music History Master's Degree Schools in New York
3Colleges in New York
12Master's Degrees
Music Historymaster's programs are on the lower end of the spectrum in terms of popularity. In fact, the major degree program ranks #721 out of the 1172 majors we look at each year. While this may limit the number of schools that offer the degree program, there are still top-quality ones to be found.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Music History Master's Degree Schools in New York ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 12 master's degrees in music history during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Music History School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of music history for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality music history program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master'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 music history students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - The number of music history students who choose to seek a master's degree at the school.
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 music history related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for music history students working on their master's degree.
The music history school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Music History Master's Degree Schools in New York.
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Featured Music History Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Earn the music business degree that fits into the business world – and partners Southern New Hampshire University with world-renowned Berklee College of Music.
It's hard to beat University of Rochester if you wish to pursue a master's degree in music history. Located in the midsize city of Rochester, University of Rochester is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a master’s in music history from University of Rochester
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.