by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Virginia” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Sacred Music is the 273rd most popular major in the country with 554 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Virginia, there were 134 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,332 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 72 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,553 and $27,844 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Virginia” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in sacred music. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in sacred music.
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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 Sacred Music Major in Virginia” 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 Sacred Music Major in Virginia”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Liberty University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Virginia list. Liberty University is located in Lynchburg, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 72 bachelors’s sacred music degrees to qualified students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Averett University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Virginia list. Averett University is a small school located in Danville, Virginia that handed out 0 bachelors’s sacred music degrees in 2020-2021.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Shenandoah University landed the #2 spot on the list. Winchester, Virginia 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.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% 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%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bethel University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Virginia list. This small school is located in Hampton, Virginia, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s sacred music degrees in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 100%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 5 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
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