2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Voice Major in the Far Western US Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Voice Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2021-2022, 668 people earned their degree in voice performance, making the major the 528th most popular in the United States.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 92 voice performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 34 voice performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,396 and $49,784 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Voice Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in voice performance. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in voice performance.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Voice Major in the Far Western US Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region master’s degree voice students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend San Francisco Conservatory of Music. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Voice Major in the Far Western US Region list. Located in San Francisco, California, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 14 degrees to qualified masters’s voice students in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 3 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.1% 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 full report on Voice Performance at San Francisco Conservatory of Music
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern California. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Voice Major in the Far Western US Region list. Los Angeles, California is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s voice degrees to 8 students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 96%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Read more about Voice Performance at University of Southern California
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Voice Major in the Far Western US Region. Located in Seattle, Washington, this large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s voice students in 2021-2022.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Voice Performance at UW Seattle
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Voice Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Redlands landed the #4 spot on the list. University of Redlands is a small school located in Redlands, California that handed out 9 masters’s voice degrees in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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 full report on Voice Performance at University of Redlands
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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%.
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- *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.