2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Musicology and Ethnomusicology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Musicology and Ethnomusicology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Musicology & Ethnomusicology is the 895th most popular major in the country with 144 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 26 musicology and ethnomusicology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 musicology and ethnomusicology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Musicology and Ethnomusicology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in musicology and ethnomusicology. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in musicology and ethnomusicology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Musicology and Ethnomusicology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree musicology and ethnomusicology students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Musicology & Ethnomusicology in the Middle Atlantic Region

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SUNY Potsdam
Potsdam, New York

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Musicology and Ethnomusicology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, SUNY Potsdam landed the #1 spot on the list. SUNY Potsdam is a small school located in Potsdam, New York that handed out 0 bachelors’s musicology and ethnomusicology degrees in 2020-2021.

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Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

#2 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Carnegie Mellon University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Musicology and Ethnomusicology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This fairly large school is located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s musicology and ethnomusicology degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Full Carnegie Mellon University Musicology & Ethnomusicology Report

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Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania

#20 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Swarthmore College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Musicology and Ethnomusicology Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Swarthmore College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. It awarded 0 bachelors’s musicology and ethnomusicology degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Musicology & Ethnomusicology at Swarthmore

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Musicology & Ethnomusicology

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.