MUSIC PERFORMANCE DEGREES
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 ### UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES

 Music performance is not a super in-demand subject. On average, each area of study confers roughly 6,200 bachelor's degrees a year; 4,280 people last year were conferred undergraduate degrees in music performance, making it the USA's 93rd most popular major for undergrad students. 250 of those students are now alumni of [Berklee College of Music](/colleges/berklee-college-of-music), which boasts having the biggest department in America, and 464 of those alumni attended school in California.

 It may not be easy to pick the right program, given that 433 institutions around the country have a four-year degree in music performance. At the college level, music performance is 2.3 times more commonly available than the average discipline, making it the 49th most universally offered focus.

 ### GRADUATE DEGREES

 While last May, a tad under 62.5% of degrees in music performance were four-year degrees; 38% were grad degrees. Music performance is the 73rd most popular master's or doctor's degree in the nation, with 2,670 degrees awarded. For some context, the average subject is 4% more popular among postgrad students than music performance.

 In Total, 6,950 students received a bachelor's or higher in music performance last year.

 ### ONLINE MUSIC PERFORMANCE DEGREES

 62 of those 6,950 graduates (0.9%) finished their learning totally online - 51 undergraduates and 11 graduate students. As you can presumably tell, it is quite uncommon to find an American undergraduate majoring in music performance online. It's presently the 153rd most popular online area of study with 89.4% less remote students than the average subject. For postgrad students, it ranks 236th, and is 98.2% south of the nation's average (616).

  [Berklee College of Music](/colleges/berklee-college-of-music)​ granted more online four-year degrees in music performance than any other US college (47).

 Furthermore, Massachusetts graduates more music performance online students than any other state (47 four-year degrees granted last spring). Massachusetts alone accounts for 92% of the major's remote students.

 There are 2 colleges in the United States with a comprehensively online four-year degree in music performance, making it the 49th most widely available remote US degree. Less than 1% of the institutions handing out the degree even have an online option, and all of the institutions awarding undergraduate degrees in music performance are private.

 If you desire to study music performance and are serious about remote schools, you should consider [Berklee College of Music](/colleges/berklee-college-of-music), as it has the best music performance program in the USA. It also supplies an additional 6 degrees exclusively remotely, so their systems are likely reliable. Additionally, there are 1,222 remote undergraduate students attending, which is 19% of their total undergraduate population.

 ### PARTIALLY ONLINE MUSIC PERFORMANCE DEGREES

 * Music performance is the 91st most pursued partially online undergrad degree in the nation
* Music performance is the 45th most broadly offered partially online college degree in the country
* 21.36% of all bachelor's degree in music performance are completed partially online
* 2.16% of [Inter American University of Puerto Rico-Metro's](/colleges/inter-american-university-of-puerto-rico-metro)​ last undergraduate class studied music performance partially online, higher than any other American college
* Colleges from California conferred the most partially online undergraduate degrees in music performance last spring (153)
* The average partially online field gives out 1,683 yearly bachelor's degrees or higher

 ### IN-PERSON MUSIC PERFORMANCE DEGREES

 * Last May, 3,315 students were awarded four-year degrees in music performance entirely in-person
* 40 schools nationally grant undergrad degrees in music performance totally in-person
* Last spring, 5,652 students completed a bachelor's or higher in music performance in-person
* [Cornish College of the Arts'](/colleges/cornish-college-of-the-arts)​ last undergraduate class had the most dense population of in-person music performance majors in the United States of America (13.1%)
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* The typical focus awards 1,836 annual grad degrees totally in-person


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University of Wisconsin-Madison

Rutgers University-New Brunswick

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

University of Arkansas

University of South Florida

Virginia Commonwealth University

Temple University

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University of Arizona

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University of Delaware

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2023 Music Performance Salary

There are about 20,480 students enrolled in Music Performance in the USA.