2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Woodwind Instruments in the Southwest Region
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Woodwind Instruments Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Woodwind Instruments is the 872nd most popular major in the country with 145 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.
Across the Southwest region, there were 10 woodwind instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 woodwind instruments graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.
Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent woodwind instruments programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the woodwind instruments program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Best Value Woodwind Instruments Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Woodwind Instruments Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region.
Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Woodwind Instruments in the Southwest Region
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Rice University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Woodwind Instruments Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Rice University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Houston, Texas. It awarded 3 bachelors’s woodwind instruments degrees in 2019-2020.
Rice also took the #1 spot in our “Best Woodwind Instruments Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Rice is $16,999 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Woodwind Instruments students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%. The impressive 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 low student loan default rate of 1.0% 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%.
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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%.
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Footnotes
- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.
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