4
Colleges in New York
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Doctor's Degrees
Music Performance is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #53 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Music Performance Doctor's Degree Schools in New York ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 80 doctor's degrees in music performance during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Your choice of music performance for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality music performance program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to music performance students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of music performance students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized music performance related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for music performance students working on their doctor's degree.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Music Performance Doctor's Degree Schools in New York list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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