Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Stringed Instruments Schools in the Southeast Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Vanderbilt University landed the #1 spot on the list. Nashville, Tennessee is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s stringed instruments degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
Vanderbilt did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Stringed Instruments Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Vanderbilt is $19,970 for Southeast Region Stringed Instruments students with aid.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.