2022 Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across the Southwest region, there were 43 religious/sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 religious/sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,970 and $95,025 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in religious/sacred music. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality religious/sacred music programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the religious/sacred music program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Religious/Sacred Music in the Southwest Region

#1

Baylor University

Waco, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$36,936 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Baylor University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region. Waco, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s religious music degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Baylor not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Baylor are $36,936, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Religious/Sacred Music at Baylor University

#2

Southern Methodist University

Dallas, Texas

#1 in overall quality

$47,478 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Methodist University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Doctorate in the Southwest Region. Southern Methodist University is located in Dallas, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 doctorate’s religious music degrees to qualified students.

SMU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Southern Methodist University are $47,478.

Read more about Religious/Sacred Music at SMU

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Religious/Sacred Music

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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