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2023 Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

6 Colleges
$50,246 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$19,244 Avg Salary

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 can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 6 schools in the New England Region 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.

2023 Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Music

Our 2023 rankings named University of Connecticut the best value school in the New England Region for music students working on their graduate certificate. UCONN is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Storrs.

UCONN graduate students pay an average of $42,237 in tuition and fees each year.

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#2

Yale University

New Haven, CT

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Yale University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Yale is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of New Haven.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Yale are $45,700 per year.

Yale also claimed a spot on our Best Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Longy School of Music of Bard College. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge, Longy is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Longy are $48,800 a year.

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#4

Boston University

Boston, MA

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Boston U is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Boston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Boston U are $59,418 per year.

Boston U not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Berklee College of Music. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. Berklee College of Music is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Boston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Berklee College of Music are $47,047 per year.

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The New England Conservatory of Music 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 city of Boston, The New England Conservatory of Music is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at The New England Conservatory of Music are $53,730 per year.

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Best Music Colleges by State

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State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 472
Connecticut 217
Rhode Island 8
New Hampshire 7
Maine 7
Vermont 7

Music is one of 9 different types of programs to choose from.

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 6 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).

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