Ranked #116 in popularity, music performance is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Oklahoma to determine which ones were the best for music performance students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 122 degrees in music performance to qualified students.
The music performance program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Music Performance rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for music performance schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Music Performance Schools in Oklahoma ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the music performance degrees they offer, see the list below.
It is hard to beat Oklahoma City University if you want to pursue a degree in music performance. Located in the large city of Oklahoma City, OCU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 4th out of 32 colleges for overall quality in the state of Oklahoma.
There were approximately 80 music performance students who graduated with this degree at OCU in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat University of Oklahoma Norman Campus if you want to pursue a degree in music performance. University of Oklahoma is a very large public university located in the midsize suburb of Norman. A Best Colleges rank of #140 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means University of Oklahoma is a great university overall.
There were approximately 12 music performance students who graduated with this degree at University of Oklahoma in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in music performance needs to look into University of Central Oklahoma. Located in the suburb of Edmond, UCO is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 8th out of 32 colleges for overall quality in the state of Oklahoma.
There were roughly 14 music performance students who graduated with this degree at UCO in the most recent data year.
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).
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The music performance program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Music Performance rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for music performance schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
