2023 Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest 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.
Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.
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 in the Southwest Region ranking. This report analyzed 10 schools in the Southwest 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.
When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.
Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
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2023 Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region
Check out the music graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.
Top 10 Best Music Graduate Certificate Schools
Our 2023 rankings named Texas Tech University the best value school in the Southwest Region for music students working on their graduate certificate. Texas Tech is a fairly large public school located in the city of Lubbock.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Texas Tech are $17,698 per year.
Texas Tech excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list.
A rank of #2 on this year’s list means The University of Texas at Austin is a great value for music students working on their graduate certificate. UT Austin is a very large public school located in the large city of Austin.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UT Austin are $22,944 per year.
UT Austin also took the #3 spot in our Best Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region rankings.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Texas State University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the city of San Marcos, Texas State is a public school with a very large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Texas State are $17,220 per year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of North Texas. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the city of Denton, UNT is a public school with a fairly large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UNT are $15,600 a year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend The University of Texas at Arlington. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. UT Arlington is a very large public school located in the large city of Arlington.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UT Arlington are $24,005 a year.
Texas Christian University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the city of Fort Worth, TCU is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
TCU graduate students pay an average of $32,268 in tuition and fees each year.
TCU did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list.
Northern Arizona University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the city of Flagstaff, NAU is a public school with a fairly large student population.
NAU graduate students pay an average of $20,125 in tuition and fees each year.
With a ranking of #8, Southern Methodist University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for music students working on their graduate certificate. SMU is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Dallas.
SMU graduate students pay an average of $35,802 in tuition and fees each year.
On top of its placing in our value ranking, SMU also did well on our Best Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.
Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #8 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate music programs. ASU - Tempe is a fairly large public school located in the city of Tempe.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at ASU - Tempe are $24,432 per year.
University of New Mexico - Main Campus came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. UNM is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Albuquerque.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNM are $20,487 per year.
Best Music Colleges by State
Explore the best music schools for a specific state in the Southwest region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Texas | 598 |
| Arizona | 155 |
| Oklahoma | 105 |
| New Mexico | 25 |
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Majors Related to Music
Music is one of 9 different types of programs to choose from.
Most Popular Related Majors
| 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 10 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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