2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sacred Music in the Plains States Region
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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 Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Plains States Region” 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 the Plains States region, there were 41 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,647 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 3 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in sacred music. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their sacred music program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Plains States Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Plains States Region”.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Sacred Music in the Plains States Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Calvary University landed the #1 spot on the list. Kansas City, Missouri is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s sacred music degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.
Read full report on Sacred Music at Calvary University
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Webster University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified masters’s sacred music students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Sacred Music at Webster
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Sacred Music Major in the Plains States Region list. Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is a private not-for-profit institution located in Kansas City, Missouri. The school has a small population, and it awarded 5 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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
- *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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