by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Keyboard Instruments Major in the Southwest Region” ranking.
In 2020-2021, 523 people earned their degree in keyboard instruments, making the major the 590th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 44 keyboard instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 29 keyboard instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Keyboard Instruments Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in keyboard instruments. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their keyboard instruments program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Keyboard Instruments Major in the Southwest Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Oklahoma. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Keyboard Instruments Major in the Southwest Region list. UCO is a fairly large public school situated in Edmond, Oklahoma. It awarded 6 masters’s keyboard instruments degrees in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Keyboard Instruments at University of Central Oklahoma
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Christian University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Keyboard Instruments Major in the Southwest Region. TCU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Fort Worth, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.7% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read full report on Keyboard Instruments at Texas Christian University
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Methodist University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Keyboard Instruments Major in the Southwest Region. This fairly large school is located in Dallas, Texas, and it awarded 8 masters’s keyboard instruments degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
Full Southern Methodist University Keyboard Instruments Report
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rice University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Keyboard Instruments Major in the Southwest Region list. Rice is located in Houston, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 masters’s keyboard instruments degrees to qualified students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.2% 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%.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Keyboard Instruments Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Baylor University landed the #5 spot on the list. Waco, Texas is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s keyboard instruments degrees to 5 students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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