2023 Best Value Music Master's Degree Schools in Iowa

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

Finding the Best Music Master's Degree School for You

Music is the #52 most popular major in Iowa with 48 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

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 Iowa to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Iowa 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.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Music Master’s Degree Schools in Iowa

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Music Master's Degree Colleges.

Best Iowa Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Music

#1

University of Northern Iowa

Cedar Falls, IA

7 Master's Degrees

#5 in Quality in Iowa

$10,569 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Northern Iowa the best value school in Iowa for music students working on their master’s degree. UNI is a medium-sized public school located in the city of Cedar Falls.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UNI are $10,569 a year.

UNI also made our Best Music Master’s Degree Schools in Iowa list, coming in at #5.

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#2

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA

22 Master's Degrees

#4 in Quality in Iowa

$12,065 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Iowa helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value music schools in Iowa. Iowa is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Iowa City.

Iowa graduate students pay an average of $12,065 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Iowa also made our Best Music Master’s Degree Schools in Iowa list, coming in at #4.

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Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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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