2022 Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
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Music Performance is the 103rd most popular major in the country with 7,957 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
Across the Southeast region, there were 1,687 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1,057 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 65 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in music performance. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great music performance programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the music performance program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree music performance students.
Top 25 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Music Performance in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Western Carolina University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Cullowhee, North Carolina is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s music performance degrees to 31 students in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree music performance students list, WCU has also earned the #23 rank in our “Best Music Performance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for WCU is $13,722 for southeast region bachelor’s degree music performance students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Arkansas. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Located in Conway, Arkansas, this fairly large public school awarded 24 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s music performance students in 2019-2020.
UCA also took the #17 spot in our “Best Music Performance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Central Arkansas is $15,376 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Music Performance students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Henderson State University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Arkadelphia, Arkansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s music performance degrees to 6 students in 2019-2020.
The yearly cost to attend Henderson State University is $10,270 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Music Performance students.
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Out of the 65 schools in the Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Florida State University landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Tallahassee, Florida, this large public school awarded 29 degrees to qualified bachelors’s music performance students in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree music performance students list, Florida State has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Music Performance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Florida State University is $9,789 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Music Performance students.
The low student loan default rate of 3.5% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 95%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lee University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. Lee University is a medium-sized school located in Cleveland, Tennessee that handed out 4 bachelors’s music performance degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree music performance students list, Lee University has also earned the #21 rank in our “Best Music Performance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Lee University is $17,696 for southeast region bachelor’s degree music performance students.
McNeese State University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Located in Lake Charles, Louisiana, this medium-sized public school awarded 16 degrees to qualified bachelors’s music performance students in 2019-2020.
The estimated yearly cost for McNeese State University is $12,267 for southeast region bachelor’s degree music performance students.
Southeastern Louisiana University landed the #7 spot on the 2022 Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. Southeastern Louisiana University is a fairly large school located in Hammond, Louisiana that handed out 23 bachelors’s music performance degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at Southeastern, the school also landed the #13 spot in our “Best Music Performance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Southeastern is $12,171 for southeast region bachelor’s degree music performance students.
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Harding University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #8. Searcy, Arkansas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s music performance degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.
It costs about $19,375 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Music Performance students per year to attend Harding.
The student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 87%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.
Kennesaw State University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #9. Kennesaw State University is a large public school situated in Kennesaw, Georgia. It awarded 19 bachelors’s music performance degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree music performance students list, KSU Georgia has also earned the #18 rank in our “Best Music Performance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Kennesaw State University is $17,221 for southeast region bachelor’s degree music performance students.
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Arkansas State University - Main Campus landed the #10 spot on the 2022 Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. A-State is a fairly large public school situated in Jonesboro, Arkansas. It awarded 3 bachelors’s music performance degrees in 2019-2020.
The yearly cost to attend Arkansas State University - Main Campus is $13,406 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Music Performance students.
James Madison University came in at #11 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. Harrisonburg, Virginia is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s music performance degrees to 77 students in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at JMU, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Music Performance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $22,169 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Music Performance students per year to attend James Madison University.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 2.3% 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%.
With a ranking of #12, University of Central Florida did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. University of Central Florida is a large school located in Orlando, Florida that handed out 29 bachelors’s music performance degrees in 2019-2020.
UCF not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #14 on our “Best Music Performance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. It costs about $10,274 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Music Performance students per year to attend UCF.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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University of North Carolina School of the Arts came in at #13 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. UNCSA is a small school located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina that handed out 25 bachelors’s music performance degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UNCSA, the school also landed the #10 spot in our “Best Music Performance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UNCSA is $13,885 for southeast region bachelor’s degree music performance students.
The student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Appalachian State University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #14. This large school is located in Boone, North Carolina, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s music performance degrees in 2019-2020.
Appalachian State also took the #24 spot in our “Best Music Performance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $13,920 for southeast region bachelor’s degree music performance students per year to attend Appalachian State.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 3.9% 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%.
Bob Jones University came in at #15 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. Located in Greenville, South Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s music performance students in 2019-2020.
The yearly cost to attend Bob Jones University is $12,923 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Music Performance students.
The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.
Columbus State University came in at #16 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. Columbus State University is located in Columbus, Georgia and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 20 bachelors’s music performance degrees to qualified students.
It costs about $12,058 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Music Performance students per year to attend CSU.
University of North Carolina at Greensboro came in at #17 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. Greensboro, North Carolina is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s music performance degrees to 25 students in 2019-2020.
The estimated yearly cost for University of North Carolina at Greensboro is $12,748 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Music Performance students.
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With a ranking of #18, University of Arkansas did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Fayetteville, Arkansas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s music performance degrees to 41 students in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southeast region bachelor’s degree music performance students list, UARK has also earned the #9 rank in our “Best Music Performance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $16,381 for southeast region bachelor’s degree music performance students per year to attend University of Arkansas.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
University of North Carolina at Wilmington ranked #19 on this year’s Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. This fairly large school is located in Wilmington, North Carolina, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s music performance degrees in 2019-2020.
The yearly cost to attend University of North Carolina at Wilmington is $19,055 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Music Performance students.
The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
University of South Florida - Main Campus ranked #20 on this year’s Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. This large school is located in Tampa, Florida, and it awarded 11 bachelors’s music performance degrees in 2019-2020.
The yearly cost to attend USF Tampa is $8,355 for southeast region bachelor’s degree music performance students.
The low student loan default rate of 4.5% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.
University of North Florida landed the #21 spot on the 2022 Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. This fairly large school is located in Jacksonville, Florida, and it awarded 26 bachelors’s music performance degrees in 2019-2020.
The yearly cost to attend University of North Florida is $9,606 for southeast region bachelor’s degree music performance students.
The low student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%.
The University of West Florida landed the #22 spot on the 2022 Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking. UWF is a fairly large school located in Pensacola, Florida that handed out 9 bachelors’s music performance degrees in 2019-2020.
The estimated yearly cost for UWF is $7,406 for southeast region bachelor’s degree music performance students.
University of North Carolina at Charlotte did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #23. Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, this large public school awarded 17 degrees to qualified bachelors’s music performance students in 2019-2020.
The yearly cost to attend UNC Charlotte is $16,529 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Music Performance students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full University of North Carolina at Charlotte Music Performance Report
Shepherd University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region ranking, coming in at #24. This small school is located in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s music performance degrees in 2019-2020.
It costs about $11,021 for southeast region bachelor’s degree music performance students per year to attend Shepherd University.
With a ranking of #25, Trevecca Nazarene University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Trevecca Nazarene University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Nashville, Tennessee. The school has a small population, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
TNU also took the #22 spot in our “Best Music Performance Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $17,499 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Music Performance students per year to attend Trevecca Nazarene University.
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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%.
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- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.
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