Online Audio and Music Production Bachelor’s degree
11 programs — 6 with federal cost data, the rest suppressed for small class sizes and listed after them, led by institutions where this is the main program rather than one of many. Federal figures cover the wider program family, so a row may share its numbers with related degrees.
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Specific program
Schools file the same degree under different federal codes — Berklee’s music production sits under “Music, Other”, Academy of Art’s under “Recording Arts”. These groups gather every code a program is actually filed under.
A note on this grouping. It includes a federal catch-all code, which is where several well-known programs in this area are filed — but catch-alls also hold degrees that are not. Check the program name on each row.
| Institution | Programcredential and delivery | at completion | 4 yrs after | Median federal loan debt at completion, divided by median earnings four years later. It answers a single question: how much of one year’s income do you owe on the day you finish?Below 50% is generally considered manageable. Above 100% means graduates owe more than they earn in a year, and repayment on a standard ten-year plan starts to consume a serious share of income.Debt covers federal loans only, so real ratios are often worse. Both figures are medians — half of graduates fall on the wrong side of each. |
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| Northeastern University Professional ProgramsMA · Private nonprofitRequest information → | Music, GeneralBachelor’s degree · Fully online | $25,500 | $60,974 | 42% |
| Eastern Kentucky UniversityKY · PublicRequest information → | Music, GeneralBachelor’s degree · Fully online | $19,315 | $37,673 | 51% |
| North Dakota State University-Main CampusND · PublicRequest information → | Music, GeneralBachelor’s degree · Fully online | — | $45,578 | — |
| Snow CollegeUT · PublicRequest information → | Music, GeneralBachelor’s degree · Fully online | — | $33,705 | — |
| Western Michigan UniversityMI · PublicRequest information → | Music, GeneralBachelor’s degree · Fully onlineWhat this figure actually coversThe federal government reports debt and earnings for a whole program family rather than one degree. At this institution that family also includes:Music Performance, GeneralMusic TechnologyVoice and OperaJazz/Jazz StudiesMusic Theory and CompositionConductingKeyboard InstrumentsThe figures on this row describe all of them together. We cannot separate them, and we do not estimate. | $27,000 | $36,254 | 74% |
| Berklee College of MusicMA · Private nonprofitRequest information → | Music PedagogyBachelor’s degree · Fully onlineOffers: Music Education (BM) · Music Therapy (BM) · Professional Music (BM) · Black Music and Culture (BM)What this figure actually coversThe federal government reports debt and earnings for a whole program family rather than one degree. At this institution that family also includes:Music Performance, GeneralMusic, OtherMusic Theory and CompositionConductingThe figures on this row describe all of them together. We cannot separate them, and we do not estimate. | $23,392 | $38,617 | 61% |
| Faulkner UniversityAL · Private nonprofitRequest information → | Music, GeneralBachelor’s degree · Fully online | Not reported | Not reported | — |
| Nova Southeastern UniversityFL · Private nonprofitRequest information → | Music, GeneralBachelor’s degree · Fully online | Not reported | Not reported | — |
| Saint Augustine's UniversityNC · Private nonprofitRequest information → | Music, GeneralBachelor’s degree · Fully online | Not reported | Not reported | — |
| Texas CollegeTX · Private nonprofitRequest information → | Music, GeneralBachelor’s degree · Fully online | Not reported | Not reported | — |
| Lancaster Bible CollegePA · Private nonprofitRequest information → | Music, GeneralBachelor’s degree · Online or on campusWhat this figure actually coversThe federal government reports debt and earnings for a whole program family rather than one degree. At this institution that family also includes:Music Performance, GeneralThe figures on this row describe all of them together. We cannot separate them, and we do not estimate. | Not reported | Not reported | — |
Source: College Scorecard, Field of Study (retrieved September 2026)
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One thing these figures cannot tell you
Earnings and debt are reported by the federal government at a four-digit program level, so a figure shown against “Audio and Music Production” covers every related program at that institution rather than one named degree. That pooling also spans delivery: where a school runs the same credential both online and on campus, the federal figures combine both sets of students. We cannot separate them, and we do not estimate. Full methodology.