2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Plains States Region

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Plains States 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 Plains States region, there were 19 jazz studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 jazz studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Plains States Region

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

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

1

University of Northern Iowa
Cedar Falls, Iowa

#25 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Northern Iowa landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Cedar Falls, Iowa, this medium-sized public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified masters’s jazz students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Jazz Studies at UNI

2

Webster University
Saint Louis, Missouri

Top 10% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Webster University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Jazz Major in the Plains States Region list. Webster is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Saint Louis, Missouri. It awarded 0 masters’s jazz degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.9% 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%.

Read more about Jazz Studies at Webster

• 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.