2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Music in Nevada

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 an Associate Highly Focused on Music Major in Nevada” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 25,910 people earned their degree in music, making the major the 43rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, music graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $27,160 and had an average of $24,560 in loans still to pay off.

Across Nevada, there were 94 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,762 and $28,500 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 4 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,756 and $17,303 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Major in Nevada” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in music. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their music program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Major in Nevada

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Major in Nevada”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Music in Nevada

1

College of Southern Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada

#3 overall quality in Nevada

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend College of Southern Nevada. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Major in Nevada. This large school is located in Las Vegas, Nevada, and it awarded 3 associates’s music degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Music at College of Southern Nevada

2

Truckee Meadows Community College
Reno, Nevada

#5 overall quality in Nevada

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Truckee Meadows Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Major in Nevada. Located in Reno, Nevada, this medium-sized public school awarded 1 degrees to qualified associates’s music students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Music at Truckee Meadows Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Music in the Far Western US Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Music

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.