by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Major in South Dakota” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Music is the 43rd most popular major in the country with 25,910 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, music graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $27,160 and had an average of $24,560 in loans still to pay off.
Across South Dakota, there were 36 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 12 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,795 and $0 respectively.
That schools that top this list have a program in music in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Major in South Dakota” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for south dakota master’s degree music students.
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Music Major in South Dakota that were part of this year’s ranking, University of South Dakota landed the #1 spot on the list. USD is a medium-sized school located in Vermillion, South Dakota that handed out 12 masters’s music degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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