2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Religious Music for a Master’s

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for veterans. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Religious Music for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Religious/Sacred Music is the 603rd most popular major in the country with 473 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 67 religious/sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Religious Music for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in religious/sacred music. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great religious/sacred music programs and a strong support system for veterans and active service members.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the religious/sacred music program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran satisfaction. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Religious Music for a Master’s

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree vets studying religious music.

Top 2 Best Religious/Sacred Music Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Great Lakes Region

1

University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana

11 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Religious Music for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Notre Dame landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Notre Dame, Indiana, and it awarded 10 masters’s religious music degrees in 2020-2021.

Notre Dame did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list.Of the 12,809 students enrolled at University of Notre Dame, 11 were GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 20 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $13,670. In addition to receiving other benefits, 7 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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 low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% 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%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Notre Dame]](/colleges/university-of-notre-dame/student-life/veterans/)

2

Lincoln Christian University
Lincoln, Illinois

13 GI Bill® Students**

#2 in overall quality

$4,761 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lincoln Christian University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Great Lakes Region for Religious Music for a Master’s list. Located in Lincoln, Illinois, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified masters’s religious music students in 2020-2021.

Lincoln Christian College and Seminary also made our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #2.Among the 581 students enrolled at Lincoln Christian College and Seminary, 13 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 6 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $4,761. During this same period, 0 students received scholarships through the Yellow Ribbon Program.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

[Read full report on veteran student life at Lincoln Christian University]](/colleges/lincoln-christian-university/student-life/veterans/)

• Best Religious/Sacred Music Master’s Degree Colleges for Veterans

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).
• Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
• 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
• 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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