2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Music in Colorado

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 “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Major in Colorado” 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 Colorado, there were 554 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,067 and $24,472 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 6 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,095 and $24,621 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Major in Colorado” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in music. That schools that top this list have a program in music in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Major in Colorado

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado associate degree music students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Music in Colorado

1

Arapahoe Community College
Littleton, Colorado

#21 overall quality in Colorado

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Arapahoe Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Arapahoe Community College is located in Littleton, Colorado and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 associates’s music degrees to qualified students.

Read more about Music at Arapahoe Community College

2

Community College of Aurora
Aurora, Colorado

#13 overall quality in Colorado

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Music Major in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, Community College of Aurora landed the #2 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Aurora, Colorado, and it awarded 3 associates’s music degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Community College of Aurora Music 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

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.