2023 Best Value Acoustics Schools
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Ranked Colleges
96
Degrees Awarded
$38,600
Avg Net Price*
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Acoustics Schools” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Acoustics is the 984th most popular major in the country with 96 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent acoustics programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the acoustics program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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The acoustics school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Acoustics Schools”.
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Best Value Acoustics Schools
The colleges and universities below are the best for acoustics students.
Top 1 Best Value Colleges for Acoustics
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New York University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Acoustics Schools. New York, New York is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s acoustics degrees to 70 students in 2020-2021.
NYU also took the #1 spot in our “Best Acoustics Schools” ranking. The yearly cost to attend NYU is $38,569 for Acoustics students.
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. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.7% 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%.
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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
- *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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