2023 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Musicology & Ethnomusicology in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Musicology and Ethnomusicology Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 144 people earned their degree in musicology and ethnomusicology, making the major the 895th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 14 musicology and ethnomusicology graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 musicology and ethnomusicology graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Musicology and Ethnomusicology Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in musicology and ethnomusicology. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in musicology and ethnomusicology.

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Most Well Attended Musicology and Ethnomusicology Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s

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

Top 2 Most Popular Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Musicology & Ethnomusicology in the Great Lakes Region

1

Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

#1 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Musicology and Ethnomusicology Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Evanston, Illinois, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s musicology and ethnomusicology students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%.

Full Northwestern Musicology & Ethnomusicology Report

2

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois

#7 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Musicology and Ethnomusicology Major in the Great Lakes Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign landed the #2 spot on the list. UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s musicology and ethnomusicology degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.

Read full report on Musicology & Ethnomusicology at UIUC

• Most Popular 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.