2023 Best Value Music Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest 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.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Music Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 28 schools in the Southwest Region to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for music students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
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 Southwest 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 West Texas A&M University to be the best value school for music students who want to pursue a master’s degree in the Southwest Region . West Texas A&M University is a medium-sized public school located in the town of Canyon.
West Texas A&M University graduate students pay an average of $8,574 in tuition and fees each year.
The excellent master’s degree programs at Texas A&M University - Kingsville helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value music schools in the Southwest Region . Located in the distant town of Kingsville, Texas A&M Kingsville is a public college with a medium-sized student population.
Texas A&M Kingsville graduate students pay an average of $14,344 in tuition and fees each year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Music Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. UT Rio Grande Valley is a fairly large public school located in the city of Edinburg.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UT Rio Grande Valley are $15,677 a year.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, UT Rio Grande Valley also is in the top 20% of our Best Music Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Sam Houston State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Music Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. SHSU is a fairly large public school located in the town of Huntsville.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at SHSU are $16,009 a year.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - Commerce. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Music Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the town of Commerce, Texas A&M Commerce is a public college with a large student population.
Texas A&M Commerce graduate students pay an average of $14,682 in tuition and fees each year.
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The University of Texas at El Paso landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree music programs. UTEP is a very large public school located in the city of El Paso.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UTEP are $16,621 per year.
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Texas Woman’s University landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree music programs. Located in the city of Denton, TWU is a public college with a fairly large student population.
TWU graduate students pay an average of $15,048 in tuition and fees each year.
Texas Tech University 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 #8 on the list. Texas Tech is a fairly large public school located in the city of Lubbock.
Texas Tech graduate students pay an average of $17,698 in tuition and fees each year.
On top of its placing in our value ranking, Texas Tech also did well on our Best Music Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.
Stephen F Austin State University landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree music programs. SFASU is a large public school located in the town of Nacogdoches.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at SFASU are $15,695 a year.
Oklahoma City University ranked #10 on this year’s Best Value Music Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. OCU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Oklahoma City.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at OCU are $13,410 a 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 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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