2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sound Arts Major in the New England Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sound Arts Major in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Sound Arts is the 1300th most popular major in the country with 26 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the New England region, there were 12 sound arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 12 sound arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,317 and $23,797 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sound Arts Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in sound arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their sound arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sound Arts Major in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sound Arts Major in the New England Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Sound Arts in the New England Region

1

Bennington College
Bennington, Vermont

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sound Arts Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Bennington College landed the #1 spot on the list. Bennington is a private not-for-profit institution located in Bennington, Vermont. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2021-2022.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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2

University of Massachusetts - Lowell
Lowell, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts - Lowell. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sound Arts Major in the New England Region. UMass Lowell is a fairly large school located in Lowell, Massachusetts that handed out 12 bachelors’s sound arts degrees in 2021-2022.

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%.

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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

Footnotes

• *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.