2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Music Technology in the Plains States Region

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Music Technology is the 334th most popular major in the country with 1,788 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 7 music technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 music technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,046 and $29,021 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Technology Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in music technology. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their music technology program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Technology Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Technology Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Music Technology in the Plains States Region

1

Culver - Stockton College
Canton, Missouri

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Culver - Stockton College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Technology Major in the Plains States Region list. This small school is located in Canton, Missouri, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s music technology degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Culver - Stockton College Music Technology Report

2

Buena Vista University
Storm Lake, Iowa

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Technology Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Buena Vista University landed the #2 spot on the list. Buena Vista University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Storm Lake, Iowa. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Buena Vista University Music Technology Report

3

University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa

#25 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Northern Iowa. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Music Technology Major in the Plains States Region list. University of Northern Iowa is a medium-sized public school situated in Cedar Falls, Iowa. It awarded 5 bachelors’s music technology degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Music Technology at University of Northern Iowa

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Music Technology

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.