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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 7,335 people earned their degree in music performance, making the major the 116th most popular in the United States.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 925 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 45 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,803 and $17,868 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in music performance. That schools that top this list have a program in music performance in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region associate degree music performance students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California Jazz Conservatory. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Far Western US Region list. California Jazz Conservatory is a small school located in Berkeley, California that handed out 4 associates’s music performance degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full California Jazz Conservatory Music Performance Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Musicians Institute landed the #2 spot on the list. Hollywood, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s music performance degrees to 41 students in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 4 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Music Performance at Musicians Institute
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Truckee Meadows Community College landed the #3 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Reno, Nevada, and it awarded 0 associates’s music performance degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Truckee Meadows Community College Music Performance Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clark College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in the Far Western US Region list. Clark College is a public institution located in Vancouver, Washington. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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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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- *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.