2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Sacred Music in California (With Aid)

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Sacred Music Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Sacred Music is the 281st most popular major in the country with 508 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, sacred music graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $31,900 and had an average of $33,289 in loans still to pay off.

Across California, there were 22 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,281 and $50,119 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great sacred music programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the sacred music program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Sacred Music Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

Best Value Sacred Music Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Sacred Music Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Sacred Music in California (With Aid)

#1

Hope International University

Fullerton, California

#1 in overall quality

$14,916 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Sacred Music Schools for a Master’s in California For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Hope International University landed the #1 spot on the list. Fullerton, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s sacred music degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

Hope not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Sacred Music Master’s Degree Schools in California” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Hope are $14,916, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Sacred Music at Hope International University

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Sacred Music (With Aid)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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