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Music Schools in the Northeast - 2024 Ranking
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Music-Colleges.com team ranks Yale University (New Haven, CT), The Juilliard School (New York City, NY), and Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) the best three music colleges in the Northeast.
See the Top 50 Music schools in the Northeast below or narrow your search by program, state, or city in the Northeast.
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Listed In 2024, we have evaluated 272 music colleges offering majors in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont.Music-Colleges.com team ranks Yale University (New Haven, CT), The Juilliard School (New York City, NY), and Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA) the best three music colleges in the Northeast.
See the Top 50 Music schools in the Northeast below or narrow your search by program, state, or city in the Northeast.
Top 50 music schools in the Northeast:
Music schools in the Northeast by state:
Music programs in the Northeast:
General Music: 206 schoolsMusic History and Literature: 58 schools
Music Performance: 102 schools
Music Theory and Composition: 43 schools
Piano and Organ: 16 schools
Stringed Instruments: 10 schools
Voice and Opera: 20 schools
Jazz Studies: 19 schools
Music Conducting: 16 schools
Music Therapy: 18 schools
Music Pedagogy: 83 schools
Music Management and Merchandising: 72 schools
Music schools in other regions:
Midwest: 379 schoolsNorthwest: 73 schools
South: 499 schools
Southeast: 338 schools
West: 301 schools
Popular music school cities in the Northeast:
in Connecticut:Danbury: 1 school
Middletown: 1 school
New Haven: 3 schools
Storrs: 1 school
West Hartford: 1 school
West Haven: 1 school
in Maine:
Orono: 1 school
Portland: 1 school
in Massachusetts:
Amherst: 3 schools
Boston: 10 schools
Cambridge: 3 schools
Lowell: 1 school
Medford: 1 school
Waltham: 1 school
Wenham: 1 school
Worcester: 4 schools
in New Hampshire:
Durham: 1 school
Hanover: 1 school
Plymouth: 1 school
in New Jersey:
Ewing: 1 school
Glassboro: 1 school
Hoboken: 1 school
Jersey City: 1 school
Lawrenceville: 1 school
Mahwah: 1 school
Montclair: 1 school
New Brunswick: 1 school
Princeton: 1 school
Wayne: 1 school
West Long Branch: 1 school
in New York:
Albany: 2 schools
Annandale On Hudson: 1 school
Bronx: 4 schools
Brooklyn: 2 schools
Buffalo: 4 schools
Dix Hills: 1 school
Dobbs Ferry: 1 school
Fredonia: 1 school
Garden City: 2 schools
Hempstead: 1 school
Houghton: 1 school
Ithaca: 2 schools
New Paltz: 1 school
New York City: 18 schools
Oneonta: 2 schools
Oswego: 1 school
Potsdam: 1 school
Purchase: 2 schools
Queens: 1 school
Rochester: 4 schools
Rockville Centre: 1 school
Schenectady: 2 schools
Staten Island: 2 schools
Stony Brook: 1 school
Syracuse: 3 schools
Vestal: 1 school
in Pennsylvania:
Allentown: 1 school
Annville: 1 school
Bethlehem: 2 schools
Bloomsburg: 1 school
Immaculata: 1 school
Indiana: 1 school
Kutztown: 1 school
Mechanicsburg: 1 school
Millersville: 1 school
Philadelphia: 9 schools
Pittsburgh: 6 schools
Scranton: 1 school
Selinsgrove: 1 school
Slippery Rock: 1 school
West Chester: 1 school
in Rhode Island:
Kingston: 1 school
Providence: 3 schools
in Vermont:
Burlington: 2 schools
Johnson: 1 school