2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Music in New Hampshire (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Music Schools for a Master’s in New Hampshire For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 New Hampshire, there were 53 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,700 and $27,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 5 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,323 and $42,175 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Music Schools for a Master’s in New Hampshire For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in music. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great music programs and cost less that 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Music Schools for a Master’s in New Hampshire For Those Getting Aid” list to help you make the college decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

Best Value Music Schools for a Master’s in New Hampshire For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Music Schools for a Master’s in New Hampshire For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Music in New Hampshire (With Aid)

#1

Dartmouth College

Hanover, New Hampshire

#1 in overall quality

$58,120 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Dartmouth College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Music Schools for a Master’s in New Hampshire For Those Getting Aid. Located in Hanover, New Hampshire, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school handed out 3 degrees to qualified masters’s music students in 2019-2020.

Dartmouth not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Music Master’s Degree Schools in New Hampshire” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Dartmouth are $58,120, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Music at Dartmouth

#2

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

Durham, New Hampshire

$29,970 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Music Schools for a Master’s in New Hampshire For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Hampshire - Main Campus landed the #2 spot on the list. UNH is a fairly large public school situated in Durham, New Hampshire. It awarded 2 masters’s music degrees in 2019-2020.

UNH not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #0 on our “Best Music Master’s Degree Schools in New Hampshire” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of New Hampshire - Main Campus are $29,970, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Music at UNH

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Music in the New England Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Music (With Aid)

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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