2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Brass Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region
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In 2021-2022, 120 people earned their degree in brass instruments, making the major the 1103rd most popular in the United States.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 24 brass instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 9 brass instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,396 and $49,784 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Brass Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in brass instruments. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in brass instruments.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Brass Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree brass instruments students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Brass Instruments in the Far Western US Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Brass Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, San Francisco Conservatory of Music landed the #1 spot on the list. San Francisco, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s brass instruments degrees to 3 students in 2021-2022.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. 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%. 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 Brass Instruments at San Francisco Conservatory of Music
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Brass Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region list. UW Seattle is a large public school situated in Seattle, Washington. It awarded 1 masters’s brass instruments degrees in 2021-2022.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 93%. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full UW Seattle Brass Instruments Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern California. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Brass Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region. Located in Los Angeles, California, this large private not-for-profit school awarded 9 degrees to qualified masters’s brass instruments students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national 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.
Read full report on Brass Instruments at University of Southern California
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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.
