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

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Tennessee” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across Tennessee, there were 140 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 7 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,060 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Tennessee” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in music performance. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their music performance program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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

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

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

1

Lee University
Cleveland, Tennessee

#18 overall quality in Tennessee

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Lee University landed the #1 spot on the list. Cleveland, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s music performance degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad 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%.

Read full report on Music Performance at Lee University

2

Belmont University
Nashville, Tennessee

#2 overall quality in Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Belmont University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Performance Major in Tennessee list. Belmont is a medium-sized school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 4 masters’s music performance degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Music Performance at Belmont 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

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.