by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Acoustics Major” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Acoustics is the 984th most popular major in the country with 96 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 37 acoustics graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,682 and $26,217 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Acoustics Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in acoustics. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their acoustics program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Acoustics Major” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Acoustics Major”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Columbia College Chicago. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Acoustics Major list. Columbia College Chicago is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend New York University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Acoustics Major list. NYU is a large school located in New York, New York that handed out 30 bachelors’s acoustics degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 90%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. 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.
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