2024 Best Value Religious Music Schools in the Southwest Region
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Ranked Colleges
43
Degrees Awarded
$27,300
Avg Net Price*
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Religious Music Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Religious/Sacred Music is the 603rd most popular major in the country with 473 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 43 religious/sacred music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Religious Music Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the religious/sacred music program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
One Size Does Not Fit All
The religious music school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Religious Music Schools in the Southwest Region”.
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Best Value Religious Music Schools in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region religious music students.
Top 3 Best Value Colleges for Religious/Sacred Music in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Dallas Baptist University. It ranked #1 on our 2024 Best Value Religious Music Schools in the Southwest Region list. Dallas, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s religious music degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.
DBU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Dallas Baptist University is $25,301 for Southwest Region Religious Music students.
Read full report on Religious/Sacred Music at DBU
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oral Roberts University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Religious Music Schools in the Southwest Region. Located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified ’s religious music students in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at ORU, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Oral Roberts University is $19,355 for southwest region religious music students.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Read full report on Religious/Sacred Music at ORU
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Baylor University. It ranked #3 on our 2024 Best Value Religious Music Schools in the Southwest Region list. Waco, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s religious music degrees to 8 students in 2020-2021.
Baylor did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Religious/Sacred Music Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $37,309 for southwest region religious music students per year to attend Baylor University.
With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Religious/Sacred Music at Baylor
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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
- *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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