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2023 Best Value Music Associate Degree Schools in Tennessee

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$11,900 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$21,963 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Music Associate Degree School for You

Music is the #19 most popular major in Tennessee with 804 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, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Music Associate Degree Schools in Tennessee to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Tennessee to see which associate degree programs offered the best value experiences for music students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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 Associate Degree Schools in Tennessee

Check out the music associate degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Tennessee Schools for Affordable Quality for an Associate in Music

Our 2023 rankings named Nashville State Community College the best value school in Tennessee for music students working on their associate degree. Nashville State Community College is a moderately-sized public school located in the large city of Nashville.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Nashville State Community College are $4,372 a year.

Read full report on Music at Nashville State Community College

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Chattanooga State Community College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Music Associate Degree Schools in Tennessee list. Chattanooga State Community College is a medium-sized public school located in the medium-sized city of Chattanooga.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Chattanooga State Community College are $4,430 a year.

Full Music at Chattanooga State Community College Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Trevecca Nazarene University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Music Associate Degree Schools in Tennessee list. TNU is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Nashville.

TNU undergraduate students pay an average of $26,898 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

TNU also took the #3 spot in our Best Music Associate Degree Schools in Tennessee rankings.

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Best Value Music Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Music Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 472
Virginia 632
North Carolina 511
Florida 1,223
Kentucky 284
South Carolina 204
Louisiana 315
Arkansas 184
Alabama 276
Mississippi 182
West Virginia 93

One of 10 majors within the area of study, music has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Music

Related Major Annual Graduates
Fine & Studio Arts 37,413
Design & Applied Arts 36,301
Drama & Theater Arts 17,341
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 16,778
General Visual & Performing Arts 6,355

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 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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