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Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
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Associate Degrees
Music Performance is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #257 most popular associate degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 4 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Music Performance Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 66 associate degrees in music performance during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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The music performance associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality music performance program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to music performance students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other music performance students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized music performance related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for music performance students working on their associate degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Music Performance Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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