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2023 Best Value Music Doctor's Degree Schools in Missouri

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$27,096 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$38,302 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Music Doctor's Degree School for You

With 135 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, music is the #45 most popular major in Missouri.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Music Doctor's Degree Schools in Missouri to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in Missouri to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for music students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Music Doctor’s Degree Schools in Missouri

Check out the music doctor's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Missouri Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Music

Our analysis found University of Missouri - Columbia to be the best value school for music students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Missouri. Located in the medium-sized city of Columbia, Mizzou is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Mizzou are $11,255 per year.

Full Music at University of Missouri - Columbia Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Missouri - Kansas City. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Music Doctor’s Degree Schools in Missouri list. UMKC is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Kansas City.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UMKC are $11,745 per year.

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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Washington University in St Louis helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value music schools in Missouri. WUSTL is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Saint Louis.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at WUSTL are $58,288 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, WUSTL is ranked #1 for overall quality for music in Missouri.

Read full report on Music at Washington University in St Louis

Best Value Music Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Value Music Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Minnesota 53
Iowa 48
Kansas 87
Nebraska 52
North Dakota 14
South Dakota 12

One of 9 majors within the area of study, music has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Fine & Studio Arts 3,224
Design & Applied Arts 1,979
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 1,704
Drama & Theater Arts 1,699
Arts & Media Management 1,184

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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