2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Stringed Instruments in the Southwest Region

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Stringed Instruments is the 604th most popular major in the country with 507 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 50 stringed instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 16 stringed instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in stringed instruments. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in stringed instruments.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree stringed instruments students.

Top 3 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Stringed Instruments in the Southwest Region

1

Rice University
Houston, Texas

#1 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Rice University landed the #1 spot on the list. Houston, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s stringed instruments degrees to 12 students in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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%.

Read more about Stringed Instruments at Rice University

2

University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Oklahoma landed the #2 spot on the list. Edmond, Oklahoma is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s stringed instruments degrees to 3 students in 2020-2021.

Full University of Central Oklahoma Stringed Instruments Report

3

Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, Texas

#11 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Christian University landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Fort Worth, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 1 degrees to qualified bachelors’s stringed instruments students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 92%.

Read full report on Stringed Instruments at Texas Christian University

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Stringed Instruments

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.