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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Music Performance Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate” 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 New England region, there were 494 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 27 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $78,293 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Music Performance Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in music performance. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in music performance.
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The music performance school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Most Well Attended Music Performance Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate”.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree music performance students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boston University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Music Performance Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s music performance degrees to 25 students in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.4% 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%.
Full Boston University Music Performance Report
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Music Performance Major in the New England Region for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the #2 spot on the list. Storrs, Connecticut is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s music performance degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
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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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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.
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