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Best Value Music Bachelor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island

2023 Best Value Music Bachelor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$29,446 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$26,068 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Music Bachelor's Degree School for You

Music is the #78 most popular major in Rhode Island with 72 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Music Bachelor's Degree Schools in Rhode Island ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in Rhode Island to see which ones offered the best value bachelor's degree programs for music students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Best Rhode Island Schools for Affordable Quality for a Bachelor's in Music

#1

Rhode Island College

Providence, RI

Our 2023 rankings named Rhode Island College the best value school in Rhode Island for music students working on their bachelor’s degree. RIC is a medium-sized public school located in the suburb of Providence.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at RIC are $10,702 a year. While working on their Bachelor's Degree, music majors at RIC accumulate an average of around $19,001 in student debt.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Rhode Island. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island list. URI is a fairly large public school located in the large suburb of Kingston.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at URI are $15,332 a year. Music majors at URI take out an average of $27,303 in student loans while working on their Bachelor's Degree.

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#3

Brown University

Providence, RI

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Brown University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island list. Located in the midsize city of Providence, Brown is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Brown are $62,304 per year.

Brown also made our Best Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island list, coming in at #1.

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Best Value Music Colleges in the New England Region

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State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 1,453
Connecticut 423
New Hampshire 46
Maine 55
Vermont 63

Music is one of 10 different types of programs to choose from.

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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