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

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in South Carolina” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Music Performance is the 116th most popular major in the country with 7,335 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across South Carolina, there were 54 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,605 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in South Carolina” ranking, we looked at 3 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.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in South Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in South Carolina”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Music Performance in South Carolina

1

Converse College
Spartanburg, South Carolina

#19 overall quality in South Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Converse College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in South Carolina list. Located in Spartanburg, South Carolina, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 2 degrees to qualified masters’s music performance students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Music Performance at Converse

2

University of South Carolina - Columbia
Columbia, South Carolina

#2 overall quality in South Carolina

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in South Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Carolina - Columbia landed the #2 spot on the list. University of South Carolina - Columbia is a public institution located in Columbia, South Carolina. The school has a large population, and it awarded 11 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full UofSC Music Performance Report

3

Bob Jones University
Greenville, South Carolina

#14 overall quality in South Carolina

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bob Jones University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in South Carolina list. Bob Jones University is located in Greenville, South Carolina and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s music performance degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.6%, 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 86%.

Read full report on Music Performance at Bob Jones University

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Music Performance in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Music Performance

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.