2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Jazz Studies in the Plains States Region
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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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 519 people earned their degree in jazz studies, making the major the 544th most popular in the United States.
Across the Plains States region, there were 14 jazz studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 jazz studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,724 and $22,887 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in jazz studies. That schools that top this list have a program in jazz studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree jazz students.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Jazz Studies in the Plains States Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Minnesota State University - Moorhead landed the #1 spot on the list. MSU Moorhead is a public institution located in Moorhead, Minnesota. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.7% 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%.
Full MSU Moorhead Jazz Studies Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Missouri - Kansas City. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Plains States Region list. University of Missouri - Kansas City is a public institution located in Kansas City, Missouri. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Jazz Studies at UMKC
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Northern Iowa. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Plains States Region. Cedar Falls, Iowa is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s jazz degrees to 1 students 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%.
Read more about Jazz Studies at University of Northern Iowa
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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.
