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2022 Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

5 Ranked Colleges
17 Degrees Awarded
$24,600 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 481 people earned their degree in religious/sacred music, making the major the 613th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 43 religious/sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 religious/sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in religious/sacred music. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent religious/sacred music programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the religious/sacred music program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree religious music students with aid.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious/Sacred Music in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

Oral Roberts University

Tulsa, Oklahoma
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oral Roberts University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. ORU is located in Tulsa, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s religious music degrees to qualified students.

ORU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Oral Roberts University is $22,248 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Religious Music students with aid.

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#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southwestern Christian University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. This small school is located in Bethany, Oklahoma, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s religious music degrees in 2019-2020.

SCU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for SCU is $20,201 for southwest region bachelor’s degree religious music students with aid.

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#4 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Hardin - Simmons University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. Hardin - Simmons University is a small school located in Abilene, Texas that handed out 1 bachelors’s religious music degrees in 2019-2020.

Hardin - Simmons did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $19,509 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Religious Music students with aid per year to attend Hardin - Simmons.

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#4

Oklahoma Wesleyan University

Bartlesville, Oklahoma
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Oklahoma Wesleyan University landed the #4 spot on the list. OKWU or OWU is a small school located in Bartlesville, Oklahoma that handed out 1 bachelors’s religious music degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at OKWU or OWU, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend OKWU or OWU is $25,246 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Religious Music students with aid.

The impressive 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.

Read more about Religious/Sacred Music at OKWU or OWU

#5

Baylor University

Waco, Texas
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Baylor University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. Baylor University is located in Waco, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s religious music degrees to qualified students.

Baylor did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Baylor is $36,039 for southwest region bachelor’s degree religious music students with aid.

The low student loan default rate of 3.7% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Religious/Sacred Music at Baylor

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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

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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