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2022 Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

5 Ranked Colleges
22 Degrees Awarded
$22,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor's in the Plains States Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking.

Religious/Sacred Music is the 613th most popular major in the country with 481 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Plains States region, there were 28 religious/sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 religious/sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,786 and $25,576 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in religious/sacred music. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great religious/sacred music programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the religious/sacred music program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region bachelor’s degree religious music students.

Top 5 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Religious/Sacred Music in the Plains States Region

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary landed the #1 spot on the list. MBTS is a small school located in Kansas City, Missouri that handed out 1 bachelors’s religious music degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our plains states region bachelor’s degree religious music students list, MBTS has also earned the #2 rank in our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $19,878 for plains states region bachelor’s degree religious music students per year to attend MBTS.

Read more about Religious/Sacred Music at MBTS

#2

North Central University

Minneapolis, Minnesota
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Central University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region list. North Central University is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 8 bachelors’s religious music degrees to qualified students.

North Central University also made our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend North Central University is $21,142 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Religious Music students.

The low student loan default rate of 3.3% 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 Religious/Sacred Music at North Central University

#3

Crown College

Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Crown College landed the #3 spot on the list. Crown College is a small school located in Saint Bonifacius, Minnesota that handed out 2 bachelors’s religious music degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our plains states region bachelor’s degree religious music students list, Crown has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $26,396 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Religious Music students per year to attend Crown.

Full Crown College Religious/Sacred Music Report

#4

Evangel University

Springfield, Missouri
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Evangel University landed the #4 spot on the list. This small school is located in Springfield, Missouri, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s religious music degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Evangel, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $22,837 for plains states region bachelor’s degree religious music students per year to attend Evangel.

The student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Religious/Sacred Music at Evangel

#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Concordia University, Nebraska. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Plains States Region. Located in Seward, Nebraska, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s religious music students in 2019-2020.

Concordia University, Nebraska also took the #4 spot in our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. It costs about $20,763 for Plains States Region Bachelor’s Degree Religious Music students per year to attend Concordia University, Nebraska.

Full Concordia University, Nebraska Religious/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

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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