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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Music Performance Schools in Maryland” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 7,335 people earned their degree in music performance, making the major the 116th most popular in the United States.
Across Maryland, there were 179 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Music Performance Schools in Maryland” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in music performance. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent music performance programs, but they also 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Music Performance Schools in Maryland” list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Music Performance Schools in Maryland.
Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Music Performance Schools in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maryland - College Park landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Maryland - College Park is a large public school situated in College Park, Maryland. It awarded 24 ’s music performance degrees in 2020-2021.
UMCP not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Music Performance Schools in Maryland” list. It costs about $18,048 for Maryland Music Performance students per year to attend UMCP.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Music Performance at University of Maryland - College Park
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Johns Hopkins University. It ranked #2 on our 2024 Best Value Music Performance Schools in Maryland list. Located in Baltimore, Maryland, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 144 degrees to qualified ’s music performance students in 2020-2021.
Johns Hopkins did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Music Performance Schools in Maryland” list. It costs about $23,428 for Maryland Music Performance students per year to attend Johns Hopkins University.
With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Music Performance at Johns Hopkins University
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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
- *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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