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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Music Performance Major in Illinois for a Master’s” 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 Illinois, there were 293 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 59 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,317 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Music Performance Major in Illinois for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in music performance. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in music performance.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Most Well Attended Music Performance Major in Illinois for a Master’s” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois master’s degree music performance students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Music Performance Major in Illinois for a Master’s list. Northwestern is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Evanston, Illinois. It awarded 29 masters’s music performance degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 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 97%.
Full Northwestern Music Performance Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend DePaul University. The school came in at #2 for the Most Well Attended Music Performance Major in Illinois for a Master’s. DePaul is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 28 masters’s music performance degrees to qualified students.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full DePaul Music Performance Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northern Illinois University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Music Performance Major in Illinois for a Master’s list. NIU is located in Dekalb, Illinois and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s music performance degrees to qualified students.
Read more about Music Performance at NIU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Roosevelt University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Music Performance Major in Illinois for a Master’s list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified masters’s music performance students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Music Performance at Roosevelt
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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
- *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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