by our College Data Analytics Team
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In 2021-2022, 519 people earned their degree in jazz studies, making the major the 544th most popular in the United States.
Across the Great Lakes region, there were 69 jazz studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 jazz studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in jazz studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in jazz studies.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Great Lakes Region”.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, DePaul University landed the #1 spot on the list. DePaul is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Michigan State University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Great Lakes Region. Michigan State is located in East Lansing, Michigan and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 5 masters’s jazz degrees to qualified students.
With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Youngstown State University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Youngstown, Ohio is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s jazz degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This large school is located in Evanston, Illinois, and it awarded 4 masters’s jazz degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 99%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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