2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across the Far Western US region, there were 90 stringed instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 stringed instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,423 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in stringed instruments. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their stringed instruments program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Stringed Instruments in the Far Western US Region

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University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California

#4 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Southern California. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region. USC is a large school located in Los Angeles, California that handed out 7 doctorate’s stringed instruments degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.3% 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 undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full University of Southern California Stringed Instruments Report

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University of Washington - Seattle Campus
Seattle, Washington

#11 overall quality in Far Western US

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Far Western US Region. University of Washington - Seattle Campus is a large school located in Seattle, Washington that handed out 1 doctorate’s stringed instruments degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 93%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Stringed Instruments at University of Washington - Seattle Campus

• Most Focused Doctor’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.