2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Technology Major in the New England Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Technology Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 1,788 people earned their degree in music technology, making the major the 334th most popular in the United States.

Across the New England region, there were 24 music technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 music technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,899 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Technology Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in music technology. That schools that top this list have a program in music technology in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Technology Major in the New England Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree music technology students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Music Technology in the New England Region

1

Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island

#2 overall quality in New England

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brown University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Technology Major in the New England Region list. Located in Providence, Rhode Island, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 3 degrees to qualified masters’s music technology students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Music Technology at Brown

2

Berklee College of Music
Boston, Massachusetts

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Berklee College of Music. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Technology Major in the New England Region list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s music technology degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% 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 Berklee College of Music

• Most Focused Master’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.