2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Sacred Music in the Middle Atlantic Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$43,800
Avg Cost*
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Well Attended Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
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 Middle Atlantic region, there were 32 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 14 sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,572 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Well Attended Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in sacred music. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in sacred music.
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Most Well Attended Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s
The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region master’s degree sacred music students.
Top 4 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Sacred Music in the Middle Atlantic Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion landed the #1 spot on the list. HUC - JIR is a small private not-for-profit school situated in New York, New York. It awarded 7 masters’s sacred music degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.
Read more about Sacred Music at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Jewish Theological Seminary of America. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s list. Jewish Theological Seminary of America is a small private not-for-profit school situated in New York, New York. It awarded 5 masters’s sacred music degrees in 2020-2021.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
Full Jewish Theological Seminary of America Sacred Music Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rider University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s list. Rider is a private not-for-profit institution located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 masters’s 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 low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.7% 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 full report on Sacred Music at Rider
Out of the 4 schools in the Most Well Attended Sacred Music Major in the Middle Atlantic Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Duquesne University landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s sacred music students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Sacred Music at Duquesne
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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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