2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Southeast Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 519 people earned their degree in jazz studies, making the major the 544th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southeast region, there were 70 jazz studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 29 jazz studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,462 and $43,311 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer 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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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region master’s degree jazz students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Jazz Studies in the Southeast Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arkansas at Monticello. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Southeast Region list. UAM is a small school located in Monticello, Arkansas that handed out 14 masters’s jazz degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.4% 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 more about Jazz Studies at University of Arkansas at Monticello
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Miami landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Coral Gables, Florida, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 6 degrees to qualified masters’s jazz students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read more about Jazz Studies at U Miami
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina Central University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Southeast Region list. North Carolina Central University is a medium-sized school located in Durham, North Carolina that handed out 9 masters’s jazz degrees in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Full North Carolina Central University Jazz Studies Report
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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.