2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Percussion Instruments Major
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$38,600
Avg Cost*
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Percussion Instruments is the 1130th most popular major in the country with 45 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 percussion instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Percussion Instruments Major” ranking, we looked at 14 colleges that offer a degree in percussion instruments. That schools that top this list have a program in percussion instruments in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Percussion Instruments Major
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Percussion Instruments Major”.
Top 14 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Percussion Instruments
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Los Angeles College of Music. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Percussion Instruments Major. Los Angeles College of Music is a small private for-profit school situated in Pasadena, California. It awarded 6 bachelors’s percussion instruments degrees in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Full LACM Percussion Instruments Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Percussion Instruments Major list. San Juan, is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s percussion instruments degrees to 1 students in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Full Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music Percussion Instruments Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The Juilliard School. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Percussion Instruments Major list. The Juilliard School is a private not-for-profit institution located in New York, New York. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.7% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Percussion Instruments at Juilliard
Out of the 14 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Percussion Instruments Major that were part of this year’s ranking, San Francisco Conservatory of Music landed the #4 spot on the list. SFCM is located in San Francisco, California and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s percussion instruments degrees to qualified students.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Percussion Instruments at SFCM
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The New England Conservatory of Music. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Percussion Instruments Major. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s percussion instruments degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 4 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 impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full The New England Conservatory of Music Percussion Instruments Report
Manhattan School of Music did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Percussion Instruments Major ranking, coming in at #6. Located in New York, New York, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s percussion instruments students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 5 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 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Percussion Instruments at Manhattan School of Music
Ithaca College came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Percussion Instruments Major ranking. Ithaca College is located in Ithaca, New York and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s percussion instruments degrees to qualified students.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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 full report on Percussion Instruments at Ithaca College
Roosevelt University landed the #8 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Percussion Instruments Major ranking. Roosevelt is located in Chicago, Illinois and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s percussion instruments degrees to qualified students.
Read more about Percussion Instruments at Roosevelt
Rice University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Percussion Instruments Major ranking, coming in at #9. Rice is located in Houston, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s percussion instruments degrees to qualified students.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.2% 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 full report on Percussion Instruments at Rice
With a ranking of #10, Chapman University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Percussion Instruments Major list. Chapman is a private not-for-profit institution located in Orange, California. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Chapman University Percussion Instruments Report
Vanderbilt University came in at #11 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Percussion Instruments Major ranking. Vanderbilt is a fairly large school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 1 bachelors’s percussion instruments degrees in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Percussion Instruments at Vanderbilt
University of Central Oklahoma came in at #12 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Percussion Instruments Major ranking. This fairly large school is located in Edmond, Oklahoma, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s percussion instruments degrees in 2020-2021.
Full University of Central Oklahoma Percussion Instruments Report
University of Washington - Seattle Campus came in at #12 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Percussion Instruments Major ranking. This large school is located in Seattle, Washington, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s percussion instruments degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%.
Read full report on Percussion Instruments at University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Central Washington University ranked #12 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Percussion Instruments Major list. Central Washington University is a fairly large public school situated in Ellensburg, Washington. It awarded 0 bachelors’s percussion instruments degrees in 2020-2021.
Full CWU Percussion Instruments Report
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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
- *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.