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2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Music Major in the Great Lakes Region

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Schools for a Master's Highly Focused on Other Music Major in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Music Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Other Music is the 407th most popular major in the country with 1,117 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 149 other music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 other music graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Music Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in other music. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their other music program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Music Major in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 6 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Music in the Great Lakes Region

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Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Music Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Cleveland Institute of Music landed the #1 spot on the list. Cleveland Institute of Music is a small school located in Cleveland, Ohio that handed out 2 masters’s other music degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Other Music at Cleveland Institute of Music

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Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Columbia College Chicago. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Music Major in the Great Lakes Region. This medium-sized school is located in Chicago, Illinois, and it awarded 10 masters’s other music degrees in 2020-2021.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Case Western Reserve University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Music Major in the Great Lakes Region. Case Western is a private not-for-profit institution located in Cleveland, Ohio. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Other Music at Case Western Reserve University

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Oakland University
Rochester Hills, Michigan

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Music Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Oakland University landed the #4 spot on the list. Oakland University is a fairly large public school situated in Rochester Hills, Michigan. It awarded 1 masters’s other music degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Other Music at Oakland

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Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Music Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Northwestern University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Evanston, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 0 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Other Music at Northwestern

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Ball State University
Muncie, Indiana

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Ball State University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Music Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Ball State University is located in Muncie, Indiana and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 masters’s other music degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.2% 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%.

Read more about Other Music at Ball State

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