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2023 Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in Massachusetts

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$52,249 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$19,244 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Music Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 472 degrees and certificates were awarded to music students who went to a Massachusetts college or university. This makes it the #33 most popular major in the state.

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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in Massachusetts to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Massachusetts 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 Massachusetts

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

Best Massachusetts Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Music

Our analysis found Longy School of Music of Bard College to be the best value school for music students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Massachusetts. Located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge, Longy is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Longy graduate students pay an average of $48,800 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#2

Boston University

Boston, MA

Out of the 4 schools in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Boston U is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Boston.

Boston U graduate students pay an average of $59,418 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Boston U also made our Best Music Graduate Certificate Schools in Massachusetts list, coming in at #5.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Berklee College of Music helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value music schools in Massachusetts. Berklee College of Music is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Boston.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Berklee College of Music are $47,047 a year.

Full Music at Berklee College of Music Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend The New England Conservatory of Music. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in Massachusetts list. Located in the large city of Boston, The New England Conservatory of Music is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at The New England Conservatory of Music are $53,730 a year.

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Best Value Music Colleges in the New England Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
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 4 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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