2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sacred Music in the Middle Atlantic Region
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Ranked Colleges
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It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Middle Atlantic 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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 37 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 13 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $63,038 and $47,245 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in sacred music. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in sacred music.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree sacred music students.
Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sacred Music in the Middle Atlantic Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Jewish Theological Seminary of America. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. New York, New York is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s sacred music degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Sacred Music at Jewish Theological Seminary of America
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. This small school is located in New York, New York, and it awarded 12 masters’s sacred music degrees 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. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Full Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion Sacred Music Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Rider University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Rider University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Sacred Music at Rider University
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Duquesne University landed the #4 spot on the list. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s sacred music degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Duquesne University Sacred Music Report
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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%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *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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