2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Brass Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Brass Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 58 people earned their degree in brass instruments, making the major the 1103rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 6 brass instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 brass instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,423 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Brass Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in brass instruments. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in brass instruments.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Brass Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region doctor’s degree brass instruments students.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Brass Instruments in the Far Western US Region

1

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

#4 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern California. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Brass Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region. USC is a private not-for-profit institution located in Los Angeles, California. The school has a large population, and it awarded 1 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read more about Brass Instruments at USC

2

University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

#11 overall quality in Far Western US

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Brass Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Washington - Seattle Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Washington - Seattle Campus is located in Seattle, Washington and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 0 doctorate’s brass instruments degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full UW Seattle Brass Instruments Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Brass Instruments

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

• *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.