2023 Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Music Graduate Certificate School for You
Music is the #37 most popular major in the country with 7,675 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.
It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.
To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. Our analysis looked at 69 schools in the United States to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for music students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
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2023 Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the United States
The following schools top our list of the Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Colleges.
Top 10 Best Music Graduate Certificate Schools
Our 2023 rankings named Messiah University the best value school in the United States for music students working on their graduate certificate. Messiah is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Mechanicsburg.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Messiah are $13,050 a year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Liberty University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools list. Located in the city of Lynchburg, Liberty University is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Liberty University are $8,360 per year.
A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Central Arkansas is a great value for music students working on their graduate certificate. UCA is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Conway.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UCA are $11,835 per year.
The excellent graduate certificate programs at Western Illinois University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value music schools in the United States. WIU is a moderately-sized public school located in the remote town of Macomb.
WIU graduate students pay an average of $12,182 in tuition and fees each year.
A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is a great value for music students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large suburb of Edwardsville, SIUE is a public college with a fairly large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at SIUE are $9,316 per year.
Northern Illinois University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for music students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #6 on the list. Located in the small suburb of Dekalb, NIU is a public school with a large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at NIU are $11,390 per year.
With a ranking of #7, Montclair State University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for music students working on their graduate certificate. Montclair State is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Montclair.
Montclair State graduate students pay an average of $13,519 in tuition and fees each year.
West Chester University of Pennsylvania did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for music students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #8 on the list. Located in the suburb of West Chester, WCUPA is a public college with a large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at WCUPA are $16,758 a year.
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Texas Tech University landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate music programs. Texas Tech is a very large public school located in the large city of Lubbock.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Texas Tech are $17,698 per year.
With a ranking of #10, Missouri State University - Springfield did quite well on this year’s best value schools for music students working on their graduate certificate. Missouri State is a very large public school located in the city of Springfield.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Missouri State are $12,618 per year.
Honorable Mentions
Here are some additional great value schools for Music graduate students seeking value that almost earned our Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools award.
| Rank | College | Location |
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| 11 | The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX |
| 12 | Texas State University | San Marcos, TX |
| 13 | University of North Texas | Denton, TX |
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Majors Related to Music
Music is one of 9 different types of programs to choose from.
Most Popular Majors Related to Music
| 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 26 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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