2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Jazz Studies in the Southwest Region

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Jazz Studies is the 544th most popular major in the country with 574 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 65 jazz studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 20 jazz studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 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.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree jazz students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Jazz Studies in the Southwest Region

1

University of North Texas
Denton, Texas

Top 25% 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Denton, Texas, and it awarded 17 masters’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 full report on Jazz Studies at UNT

2

University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Oklahoma. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Southwest Region. University of Central Oklahoma is a public institution located in Edmond, Oklahoma. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full UCO Jazz Studies Report

• Most Focused Master’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.