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2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Music Performance (Income $75-$110k) in the Rocky Mountains Region

1 Ranked Colleges
30 Degrees Awarded
$33,000 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k” 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 Rocky Mountains region, there were 238 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,140 and $97,138 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality music performance programs that also have a lower cost than 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The colleges and universities below are the best for rocky mountains region doctor’s degree music performance students whose families make $75-$110k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Music Performance (Income $75-$110k) in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Colorado Boulder. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region For Those Making $75-$110k. This large school is located in Boulder, Colorado, and it awarded 30 doctorate’s music performance degrees in 2019-2020.

CU - Boulder also made our “Best Music Performance Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Colorado Boulder are $32,980, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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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