by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Well Attended Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that 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 the Middle Atlantic region, there were 32 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in sacred music. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular sacred music programs in the United States.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s”.
Out of the 8 schools in the Most Well Attended Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Nyack College landed the #1 spot on the list. Nyack College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Nyack, New York. It awarded 4 bachelors’s sacred music degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clarks Summit University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in South Abington Township, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s sacred music students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lancaster Bible College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s list. Lancaster, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s sacred music degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Valley Forge. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s sacred music students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 8 schools in the Most Well Attended Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Rider University landed the #5 spot on the list. Rider is a small school located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey that handed out 1 bachelors’s sacred music degrees in 2020-2021.
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. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Seton Hill University did quite well in the 2023 Most Well Attended Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s ranking, coming in at #6. Located in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s sacred music students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Cairn University ranked #6 on this year’s Most Well Attended Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s list. Langhorne, Pennsylvania is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s sacred music degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
Jewish Theological Seminary of America did quite well in the 2023 Most Well Attended Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Bachelor’s ranking, coming in at #6. Jewish Theological Seminary of America is located in New York, New York and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 5 bachelors’s sacred music degrees to qualified students.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on Sacred Music at Jewish Theological Seminary of America
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