2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Music Performance in Maine

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In 2020-2021, 7,335 people earned their degree in music performance, making the major the 116th most popular in the United States.

Across Maine, there were 19 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,717 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Maine” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Maine

The colleges and universities below are the best for maine master’s degree music performance students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Music Performance in Maine

1

University of Maine
Orono, Maine

#6 overall quality in Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Maine is a fairly large school located in Orono, Maine that handed out 2 masters’s music performance degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Music Performance at UMaine

2

University of Southern Maine
Portland, Maine

#9 overall quality in Maine

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Maine that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Maine landed the #2 spot on the list. Portland, Maine is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s music performance degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Southern Maine Music Performance Report

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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

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.