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2023 Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in Texas

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

7 Colleges
$17,626 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$19,244 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Music Graduate Certificate School for You

With 598 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, music is the #30 most popular major in Texas.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

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 Texas ranking. This report analyzed 7 schools in Texas 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.

2023 Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in Texas

Check out the music graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

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

#1

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX

Our 2023 rankings named Texas Tech University the best value school in Texas for music students working on their graduate certificate. Texas Tech is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Lubbock.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Texas Tech are $9,518 a year.

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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 fairly large public school located in the large city of Austin.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UT Austin are $12,050 per year.

UT Austin also made our Best Music Graduate Certificate Schools in Texas list, coming in at #2.

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#3

Texas State University

San Marcos, TX

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 Texas list. Located in the city of San Marcos, Texas State is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Texas State are $9,060 per year.

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Out of the 7 schools in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Texas at Arlington landed the # 4 spot on the list. UT Arlington is a very large public school located in the city of Arlington.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UT Arlington are $10,853 per year.

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A rank of #5 on this year’s list means University of North Texas is a great value for music students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Denton, UNT is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UNT are $8,256 a year.

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#6

Texas Christian University

Fort Worth, TX

Texas Christian University landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate music programs. Located in the large city of Fort Worth, TCU is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at TCU are $32,268 a year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, TCU is ranked #4 for overall quality for music in Texas.

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Southern Methodist University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in Texas list. SMU is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Dallas.

SMU graduate students pay an average of $35,802 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

SMU not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Music Graduate Certificate Schools in Texas list.

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Best Value Music Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Value Music Colleges in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 155
Oklahoma 105
New Mexico 25

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 7 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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