2023 Most Well Attended Music Pedagogy Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

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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 “Most Well Attended Music Pedagogy Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in music pedagogy. To top this list, a school must have a successful music pedagogy 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 Music Pedagogy Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree music pedagogy students.

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

1

University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Oklahoma. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Music Pedagogy Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s. UCO is a public institution located in Edmond, Oklahoma. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Music Pedagogy at University of Central Oklahoma

2

Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, Texas

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Music Pedagogy Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s 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.

Full SHSU Music Pedagogy Report

3

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#10 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Music Pedagogy Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. Southern Methodist University is a fairly large school located in Dallas, Texas that handed out 0 masters’s music pedagogy degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Music Pedagogy at Southern Methodist University

• Most Popular 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.