2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Music (Income $0-$30k) in Rhode Island

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Music is the 40th most popular major in the country with 27,047 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, music graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $25,639 and had an average of $28,653 in loans still to pay off.

Across Rhode Island, there were 68 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,800 and $23,984 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality music 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 program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Music Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Music Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Music (Income $0-$30k) in Rhode Island

#1

University of Rhode Island

Kingston, Rhode Island

#1 in overall quality

$29,082 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Music Schools for a Master’s in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Rhode Island is a fairly large school located in Kingston, Rhode Island that handed out 1 masters’s music degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at URI, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Music Master’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Rhode Island are $29,082.

Read full report on Music at University of Rhode Island

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Music (Income $0-$30k) in the New England Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Music (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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