2022 Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Music Performance is the 103rd most popular major in the country with 7,957 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the New England region, there were 596 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 19 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $73,889 and $109,372 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in music performance. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent music performance programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the music performance program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region doctor’s degree music performance students whose families make $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Music Performance (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region

#1

Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$57,666 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Boston University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s music performance degrees to 18 students in 2019-2020.

Boston U also took the #1 spot in our “Best Music Performance Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Boston U are $57,666, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Music Performance at Boston University

#2

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut

#2 in overall quality

$41,576 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Connecticut. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Doctorate in the New England Region For Those Making $0-$30k. Located in Storrs, Connecticut, this large public school awarded 1 degrees to qualified doctorate’s music performance students in 2019-2020.

UCONN did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Music Performance Doctor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Connecticut are $41,576.

Read full report on Music Performance at University of Connecticut

• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Music Performance (Income $0-$30k)

Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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