2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Music in Illinois

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

Across Illinois, there were 29 other music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 10 other music graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,317 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Music Major in Illinois” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in other music. That schools that top this list have a program in other music in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Music Major in Illinois

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Music in Illinois

1

Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

#13 overall quality in Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia College Chicago. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Music Major in Illinois list. Columbia is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 10 masters’s other music degrees in 2020-2021.

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Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

#1 overall quality in Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Music Major in Illinois list. This large school is located in Evanston, Illinois, and it awarded 0 masters’s other music degrees in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

Read more about Other Music at Northwestern

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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.