2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sound Arts Major
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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 Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sound Arts Major” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Sound Arts is the 1300th most popular major in the country with 26 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 22 sound arts graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,724 and $23,030 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sound Arts Major” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in sound arts. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their sound arts program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sound Arts Major
The colleges and universities below are the best for bachelor’s degree sound arts students.
Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Sound Arts
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sound Arts Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Bennington College landed the #1 spot on the list. Bennington, Vermont is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s sound arts degrees to 0 students in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 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 1.7% 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%.
Full Bennington College Sound Arts Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Massachusetts - Lowell. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sound Arts Major. University of Massachusetts - Lowell is a fairly large school located in Lowell, Massachusetts that handed out 12 bachelors’s sound arts degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Sound Arts at UMass Lowell
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Oswego. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Sound Arts Major list. Located in Oswego, New York, this medium-sized public school handed out 9 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s sound arts students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Sound Arts at SUNY Oswego
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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
- *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.
