2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Stringed Instruments in the Great Lakes Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 82 stringed instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 30 stringed instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 4 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in stringed instruments. That schools that top this list have a program in stringed instruments in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Great Lakes Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree stringed instruments students.

Top 4 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Stringed Instruments in the Great Lakes Region

1

Roosevelt University
Chicago, Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Roosevelt University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Great Lakes Region. Roosevelt is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a small population, and it awarded 10 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Roosevelt Stringed Instruments Report

2

Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

#1 overall quality in Great Lakes

Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern University landed the #2 spot on the list. Evanston, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s stringed instruments degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.

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 school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 97%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Stringed Instruments at Northwestern University

3

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, Michigan

#4 overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Great Lakes Region. Ann Arbor, Michigan is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s stringed instruments degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Stringed Instruments at U-M

4

University of Akron Main Campus
Akron, Ohio

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Akron Main Campus. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Stringed Instruments Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Akron, Ohio, this fairly large public school handed out 1 degrees to qualified masters’s stringed instruments students in 2020-2021.

Full University of Akron Main Campus Stringed Instruments Report

• Most Focused Master’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.