2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Music Pedagogy in the Southwest Region

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Music Pedagogy is the 710th most popular major in the country with 308 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 12 music pedagogy graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 music pedagogy graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Pedagogy Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in music pedagogy. That schools that top this list have a program in music pedagogy in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Pedagogy Major in the Southwest Region

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

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Music Pedagogy in the Southwest Region

1

University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Pedagogy Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Oklahoma landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Central Oklahoma is a fairly large school located in Edmond, Oklahoma that handed out 4 masters’s music pedagogy degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Music Pedagogy at UCO

2

Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, Texas

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Pedagogy Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Sam Houston State University landed the #2 spot on the list. SHSU is a large school located in Huntsville, Texas that handed out 1 masters’s music pedagogy degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Music Pedagogy at Sam Houston State University

3

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#10 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Pedagogy Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #3 spot on the list. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s music pedagogy degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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 Music Pedagogy at Southern Methodist University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Music Pedagogy

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.