2023 Best Value Music Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Music Master's Degree 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.
The Best Value Music Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 39 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which ones offered the best value master's degree 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 Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for music majors pursuing a master's degree.
Top 10 Best Music Master's Degree Schools
Our analysis found Columbia College Chicago to be the best value school for music students who want to pursue a master’s degree in the Great Lakes Region . Columbia is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Columbia are $2,350 per year.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Youngstown State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Music Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Youngstown State University is a fairly large public school located in the city of Youngstown.
Youngstown State University graduate students pay an average of $6,931 in tuition and fees each year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Western Illinois University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Music Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. WIU is a moderately-sized public school located in the remote town of Macomb.
WIU graduate students pay an average of $12,182 in tuition and fees each year.
A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Southern Illinois University Edwardsville is a great value for music students working on their master’s degree. Located in the large suburb of Edwardsville, SIUE is a public college with a fairly large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at SIUE are $9,316 a year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Illinois State University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Music Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the suburb of Normal, Illinois State is a public school with a very large student population.
Illinois State graduate students pay an average of $11,773 in tuition and fees each year.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Illinois State also is in the top 20% of our Best Music Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking.
Northern Illinois University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Music Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Located in the small suburb of Dekalb, NIU is a public school with a fairly large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at NIU are $11,390 per year.
Eastern Illinois University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Music Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. EIU is a moderately-sized public school located in the distant town of Charleston.
EIU graduate students pay an average of $21,407 in tuition and fees each year.
University of Akron Main Campus came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Music Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. University of Akron Main Campus is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Akron.
University of Akron Main Campus graduate students pay an average of $11,936 in tuition and fees each year.
Indiana State University ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Music Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the city of Terre Haute, Indiana State is a public college with a medium-sized student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Indiana State are $15,562 per year.
Bowling Green State University - Main Campus did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for music students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #10 on the list. Located in the town of Bowling Green, BGSU is a public college with a fairly large student population.
BGSU graduate students pay an average of $15,823 in tuition and fees each year.
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Best Music Colleges by State
Explore the best music schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Michigan | 299 |
| Illinois | 423 |
| Ohio | 474 |
| Indiana | 298 |
| Wisconsin | 61 |
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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 25 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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