by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Music Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Religious/Sacred Music is the 603rd most popular major in the country with 413 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 33 religious/sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 religious/sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Music Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in religious/sacred music. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in religious/sacred music.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Music Major in the Southwest Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dallas Baptist University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Music Major in the Southwest Region list. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s religious music degrees to 8 students in 2021-2022.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of St. Thomas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Music Major in the Southwest Region list. University of St. Thomas is a small school located in Houston, Texas that handed out 1 masters’s religious music degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Religious/Sacred Music at University of St. Thomas
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Southern Methodist University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Music Major in the Southwest Region list. SMU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Dallas, Texas. It awarded 2 masters’s religious music degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Baylor University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Music Major in the Southwest Region. Baylor University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Waco, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 4 masters’s degrees 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oral Roberts University. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Religious Music Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 3 degrees to qualified masters’s religious music students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.5% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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