2023 Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

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.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for music students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for music majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best Rocky Mountains Region Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Music

#1

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

2 Graduate Certificates

#8 in Quality in the Rocky Mountains Region

$25,705 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Utah the best value school in the Rocky Mountains Region for music students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City, U of U is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at U of U are $25,705 a year.

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#2

University of Denver

Denver, CO

4 Graduate Certificates

#10 in Quality in the Rocky Mountains Region

$53,943 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Denver. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list. Located in the city of Denver, DU is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at DU are $53,943 a year.

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Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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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