2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Religious/Sacred Music in the Southwest Region

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In 2019-2020, 481 people earned their degree in religious/sacred music, making the major the 613th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 43 religious/sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 24 religious/sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,078 and $37,227 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in religious/sacred music. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent religious/sacred music programs, but they also 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 Master’s in the Southwest Region

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

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Religious/Sacred Music in the Southwest Region

#1

Dallas Baptist University

Dallas, Texas

#2 in overall quality

$20,204 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dallas Baptist University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region list. This small school is located in Dallas, Texas, and it awarded 5 masters’s religious music degrees in 2019-2020.

DBU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Dallas Baptist University are $20,204, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Religious/Sacred Music at Dallas Baptist University

#2

University of St. Thomas

Houston, Texas

#3 in overall quality

$21,634 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Master’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of St. Thomas landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 9 masters’s religious music degrees in 2019-2020.

UST not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Master’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 UST are $21,634.

Full UST Religious/Sacred Music Report

#3

Baylor University

Waco, Texas

#1 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 #3 for the Best Value Religious Music Schools for a Master’s 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 masters’s religious music degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Baylor, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Baylor are $36,936.

Read more about Religious/Sacred Music at Baylor

• Best Value Master’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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