<p>the list is too much and too little: how can you list Muhlenberg (with a tiny faculty and no real performance program) or (I picked it at random and googled it) Our Lady of the Lake in San Antonio, with only 2 full time faculty with DMA’s - so nobody with a PhD teaching music history or theory – and not Oberlin? Even in the same area as Muhlenberg, there is Moravian College, which has more going on…
not to criticize anyone for posting lists…but as someone mentioned, just about every college does have some kind of music program, and to look at their websites, they are quite proud of them. That doesn’t mean that someone who wants to be a performer or future grad student in music should go just anywhere…in that sense, the list can be unhelpful. What you might want to know is, what are schools at which students thrive in music studies and from which students have success going forward.</p>