2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 574 people earned their degree in jazz studies, making the major the 544th most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 65 jazz studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 45 jazz studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in jazz studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in jazz studies.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Jazz Studies in the Southwest Region

1

University of North Texas
Denton, Texas

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Texas. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Denton, Texas, and it awarded 39 bachelors’s jazz degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about Jazz Studies at University of North Texas

2

University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Oklahoma. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Southwest Region list. University of Central Oklahoma is a public institution located in Edmond, Oklahoma. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 1 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of Central Oklahoma Jazz Studies Report

3

The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas

#6 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend The University of Texas at Austin. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Austin, Texas, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s jazz degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.3% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

Read more about Jazz Studies at The University of Texas at Austin

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Jazz Studies

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.