2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Music in Massachusetts

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Other Music Major in Massachusetts for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 1,117 people earned their degree in other music, making the major the 407th most popular in the United States.

Across Massachusetts, there were 222 other music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 216 other music graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,029 and $25,475 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Other Music Major in Massachusetts for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other music. To top this list, a school must have a successful other music program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Other Music Major in Massachusetts for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Other Music Major in Massachusetts for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Other Music in Massachusetts

1

Berklee College of Music
Boston, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Berklee College of Music. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Other Music Major in Massachusetts for a Bachelor’s list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s other music degrees to 216 students in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Other Music at Berklee College of Music

2

University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Lowell, Massachusetts

#23 overall quality in Massachusetts

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Other Music Major in Massachusetts for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts - Lowell landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Lowell, Massachusetts, this fairly large public school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s other music students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Other Music at UMass Lowell

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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.