2024 Best Music Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region
92Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region
4,487Music Degrees Awarded
$26,023Avg Early-Career Salary
If you plan on majoring in music, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #43 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 92 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Music Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 4,487 degrees in music during the 2020-2021 academic year.
The music program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Music rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for music schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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Best Schools for Music in the Middle Atlantic Region
The schools below may not offer all types of music degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer. Only those schools that rank in the top 15% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
It is hard to beat New York University if you wish to pursue a degree in music. NYU is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York. A Best Colleges rank of #27 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means NYU is a great university overall.
There were roughly 197 music students who graduated with this degree at NYU in the most recent year we have data available. Graduates who receive their degree from the music program earn about $27,868 for their early career.
It's difficult to beat The Juilliard School if you wish to pursue a degree in music. Juilliard is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of New York.
There were roughly 208 music students who graduated with this degree at Juilliard in the most recent year we have data available. Graduates who receive their degree from the music program earn around $18,174 in their early career salary.
Carnegie Mellon University is a good choice for students pursuing a degree in music. Carnegie Mellon is a large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Pittsburgh. A Best Colleges rank of #9 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Carnegie Mellon is a great university overall.
There were about 94 music students who graduated with this degree at Carnegie Mellon in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the music program report average early career wages of $22,609.
Johns Hopkins University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in music. Located in the large city of Baltimore, Johns Hopkins is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #23 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Johns Hopkins is a great university overall.
There were roughly 176 music students who graduated with this degree at Johns Hopkins in the most recent year we have data available. Students who receive their degree from the music program earn an average of $18,024 for their early career.
Columbia is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of New York. A Best Colleges rank of #14 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Columbia is a great university overall.
There were approximately 47 music students who graduated with this degree at Columbia in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Rochester is a large private not-for-profit university located in the medium-sized city of Rochester. A Best Colleges rank of #104 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means University of Rochester is a great university overall.
There were about 239.00000000000003 music students who graduated with this degree at University of Rochester in the most recent data year. Students who receive their degree from the music program earn about $25,339 for their early career.
UPenn is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Philadelphia. A Best Colleges rank of #4 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UPenn is a great university overall.
There were about 9 music students who graduated with this degree at UPenn in the most recent data year.
Located in the large suburb of Mechanicsburg, Messiah is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 31st out of 109 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were approximately 61 music students who graduated with this degree at Messiah in the most recent year we have data available. Music degree recipients from Messiah University get an earnings boost of approximately $33,393 over the average income of music graduates.
Located in the large suburb of Easton, Lafayette is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. A Best Colleges rank of #96 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Lafayette is a great college overall.
There were roughly 5 music students who graduated with this degree at Lafayette in the most recent year we have data available.
Temple is a very large public university located in the city of Philadelphia. This university ranks 11th out of 109 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were approximately 130 music students who graduated with this degree at Temple in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the music program state that they receive average early career wages of $26,116.
Located in the large suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #42 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means UMCP is a great university overall.
There were about 73 music students who graduated with this degree at UMCP in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduation, music degree recipients usually earn about $25,939 at the beginning of their careers.
Located in the large city of New York, New School University is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population. This school ranks 15th out of 142 colleges for overall quality in the state of New York.
There were approximately 236 music students who graduated with this degree at New School University in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the music program report average early career earnings of $17,513.
Located in the large city of New York, Manhattan School of Music is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.
There were approximately 252 music students who graduated with this degree at Manhattan School of Music in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the music program report average early career wages of $20,003.
These are some additional schools worth mentioning that are also great but just didn't quite make the cut to earn our top Best Music Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region award.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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The music program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Music rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for music schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
