2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Stringed Instruments in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Stringed Instruments Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2019-2020, 545 people earned their degree in stringed instruments, making the major the 599th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 42 stringed instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 29 stringed instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Stringed Instruments Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in stringed instruments. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent stringed instruments programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the stringed instruments program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Stringed Instruments Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Stringed Instruments Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Stringed Instruments Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Stringed Instruments in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

#1

Rice University

Houston, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$47,913 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Stringed Instruments Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Rice University landed the #1 spot on the list. Rice is located in Houston, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 26 masters’s stringed instruments degrees to qualified students.

Rice also took the #1 spot in our “Best Stringed Instruments Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Rice are $47,913, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Stringed Instruments at Rice University

#2

Texas Christian University

Fort Worth, Texas

$32,268 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Christian University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Stringed Instruments Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. TCU is a fairly large school located in Fort Worth, Texas that handed out 3 masters’s stringed instruments degrees in 2019-2020.

TCU also took the #0 spot in our “Best Stringed Instruments Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Texas Christian University are $32,268, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Stringed Instruments at TCU

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Stringed Instruments (With Aid)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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