2024 Best Music Theory & Composition Master's Degree Schools
53
Colleges in the United States
297
Master's Degrees
a master's degree in
music theory & composition is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #310 out of 1172 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 53 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for music theory & composition students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 297 master's degrees in music theory & composition during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Music Theory & Composition School for Your Master's Degree
The music composition master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Other Factors We Consider
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on music theory & composition students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other music theory & composition students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
- Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized music theory & composition related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for music theory & composition students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Music Theory & Composition Schools
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Music Theory & Composition Master's Degree Schools list, to help you choose the best school for you.
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