2022 Best Value Jazz Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Jazz Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Jazz Studies is the 571st most popular major in the country with 532 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
Across the Southeast region, there were 57 jazz studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 33 jazz studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.
This year’s “Best Value Jazz Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in jazz studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent jazz studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.
When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the jazz studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Best Value Jazz Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree jazz students.
Top 4 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Jazz Studies in the Southeast Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Florida. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Jazz Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. UNF is located in Jacksonville, Florida and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 9 bachelors’s jazz degrees to qualified students.
UNF did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Jazz Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for University of North Florida is $9,606 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Jazz students.
The low student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Asheville. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Jazz Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Asheville, North Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s jazz degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.
UNCA also took the #2 spot in our “Best Jazz Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” ranking. It costs about $12,061 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Jazz students per year to attend UNCA.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Loyola University New Orleans. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Jazz Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region. New Orleans, Louisiana is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s jazz degrees to 7 students in 2019-2020.
Loyola New Orleans did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Jazz Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Loyola New Orleans is $21,486 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Jazz students.
Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Jazz Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Miami landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Coral Gables, Florida, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 12 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s jazz students in 2019-2020.
U Miami also made our “Best Jazz Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $46,949 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Jazz students per year to attend U Miami.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The low student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.
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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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