2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Far Western US Region
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Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Sacred Music is the 273rd most popular major in the country with 487 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , sacred music graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $30,993 and had an average of $27,649 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 42 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,396 and $49,784 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in sacred music. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their sacred music program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Far Western US Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Far Western US Region”.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sacred Music in the Far Western US Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Academy for Jewish Religion - California. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Far Western US Region. Los Angeles, 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 4 students in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read more about Sacred Music at Academy for Jewish Religion - California
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, California Baptist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Riverside, California is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s sacred music degrees to 2 students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Sacred Music at California Baptist University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern California. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Far Western US Region list. This large school is located in Los Angeles, California, and it awarded 1 masters’s sacred music degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Sacred Music at University of Southern California
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hope International University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Far Western US Region list. Located in Fullerton, California, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified masters’s sacred music students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Sacred Music at Hope
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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%.
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- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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