2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Woodwind Instruments in the Middle Atlantic Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Woodwind Instruments Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Woodwind Instruments is the 963rd most popular major in the country with 110 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 28 woodwind instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 woodwind instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Woodwind Instruments Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in woodwind instruments. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their woodwind instruments program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Woodwind Instruments Major in the Middle Atlantic Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Woodwind Instruments Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Woodwind Instruments in the Middle Atlantic Region

1

Manhattan School of Music
New York, New York

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Woodwind Instruments Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Manhattan School of Music landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in New York, New York, and it awarded 11 masters’s woodwind instruments degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, 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 97%. 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.

Read more about Woodwind Instruments at Manhattan School of Music

2

The Juilliard School
New York, New York

#17 overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Woodwind Instruments Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, The Juilliard School landed the #2 spot on the list. The Juilliard School is a small school located in New York, New York that handed out 6 masters’s woodwind instruments degrees in 2020-2021.

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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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.

Read full report on Woodwind Instruments at The Juilliard School

3

Ithaca College
Ithaca, New York

Top 20% overall quality in Middle Atlantic

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Woodwind Instruments Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Ithaca College landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Ithaca, New York, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s woodwind instruments students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Woodwind Instruments at Ithaca

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Woodwind Instruments

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.