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

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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 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 “Most Well Attended Music Performance Major in Tennessee for a Master’s” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in music performance. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular music performance programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Music Performance Major in Tennessee for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Music Performance Major in Tennessee for a Master’s”.

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

1

Belmont University
Nashville, Tennessee

#2 overall quality in Tennessee

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Music Performance Major in Tennessee for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Belmont University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Nashville, Tennessee, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 4 degrees to qualified masters’s music performance students 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

2

Lee University
Cleveland, Tennessee

#18 overall quality in Tennessee

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Music Performance Major in Tennessee for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Lee University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Cleveland, Tennessee, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 degrees to qualified masters’s music performance students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Music Performance at Lee 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.