2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Acoustics

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Acoustics is the 984th most popular major in the country with 96 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 54 acoustics graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’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.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acoustics Major

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acoustics Major”.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Acoustics

1

New York University
New York, New York

Top 5% overall quality in United States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acoustics Major that were part of this year’s ranking, New York University landed the #1 spot on the list. New York, New York is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s acoustics degrees to 38 students in 2020-2021.

The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. 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 school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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2

Naval Postgraduate School
Monterey, California

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Naval Postgraduate School. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Acoustics Major. Naval Postgraduate School is a small public school situated in Monterey, California. It awarded 0 masters’s acoustics degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Acoustics at Naval Postgraduate School

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

• *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.

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