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 was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Mississippi” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 554 people earned their degree in sacred music, making the major the 273rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, sacred music graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $30,993 and had an average of $27,000 in loans still to pay off.
Across Mississippi, there were 10 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,502 and $27,577 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Mississippi” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in sacred music. That schools that top this list have a program in sacred music in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Mississippi” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for mississippi bachelor’s degree sacred music students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Blue Mountain College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Mississippi. Blue Mountain, Mississippi is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s sacred music degrees to 4 students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, William Carey University landed the #2 spot on the list. William Carey University is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 bachelors’s sacred music degrees to qualified students.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi College. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Mississippi list. This small school is located in Clinton, Mississippi, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s sacred music degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.8% 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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