2024 Best Music Performance Bachelor's Degree Schools in Kentucky

Music Performance is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #94 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Kentucky to determine which ones were the best for music performance students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 38 bachelor's degrees in music performance during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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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 bachelor's 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 complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for music performance students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Music Performance Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Music Performance Bachelor's Degree Schools in Kentucky ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Music Performance in Kentucky

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in music performance.

Top Kentucky Schools for a Bachelor's in Music Performance

1

University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

13 Annual Graduates

University of Kentucky is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in music performance. UK is a fairly large public university located in the city of Lexington.More information about a bachelor’s in music performance from University of Kentucky

2

Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY

22 Annual Graduates

Western Kentucky University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in music performance. Located in the city of Bowling Green, WKU is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in music performance from Western Kentucky University

Best Music Performance Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Music Performance Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	492	181
Tennessee	460	51
North Carolina	453	156
Georgia	453	109
Virginia	421	214
South Carolina	370	18
Alabama	320	5
Louisiana	306	102
Arkansas	294	80
Mississippi	275	19
West Virginia	223	13

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Rankings in Majors Related to Music Performance

Music Performance is one of 17 different types of Music programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Music Performance

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Music	149
Other Music	15
Music History	6

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.