2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Texas

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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 Texas, there were 41 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 18 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,376 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Texas” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in sacred music. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in sacred music.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Texas

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

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sacred Music in Texas

1

Dallas Baptist University
Dallas, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dallas Baptist University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Texas list. Located in Dallas, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 9 degrees to qualified masters’s sacred music students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Sacred Music at DBU

2

University of St. Thomas
Houston, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of St. Thomas. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Texas list. Located in Houston, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 5 degrees to qualified masters’s sacred music students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Full University of St. Thomas Sacred Music Report

3

Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas

#4 overall quality in Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Methodist University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Texas. This fairly large school is located in Dallas, Texas, and it awarded 2 masters’s sacred music degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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%.

Read more about Sacred Music at Southern Methodist University

4

Baylor University
Waco, Texas

#6 overall quality in Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Baylor University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in Texas. Baylor University is a large private not-for-profit school situated in Waco, Texas. It awarded 2 masters’s sacred music degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.

Full Baylor University Sacred Music Report

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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

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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