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2023 Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in Missouri

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$9,953 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$19,244 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Music Graduate Certificate School for You

With 135 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, music is the #45 most popular major in Missouri.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

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 Missouri ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in Missouri 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.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in Missouri

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

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

Our analysis found Missouri State University - Springfield to be the best value school for music students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Missouri. Located in the midsize city of Springfield, Missouri State is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Missouri State graduate students pay an average of $6,858 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Music at Missouri State University - Springfield Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Missouri - Columbia. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in Missouri list. Located in the city of Columbia, Mizzou is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Mizzou are $11,255 a year.

Mizzou also took the #2 spot in our Best Music Graduate Certificate Schools in Missouri rankings.

Read full report on Music at University of Missouri - Columbia

The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Missouri - Kansas City helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value music schools in Missouri. UMKC is a large public school located in the city of Kansas City.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UMKC are $11,745 per year.

Full Music at University of Missouri - Kansas City Report

Best Value Music Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Minnesota 53
Iowa 48
Kansas 87
Nebraska 52
North Dakota 14
South Dakota 12

One of 9 majors within the area of study, music has other similar majors worth exploring.

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 3 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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