2023 Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Music Graduate Certificate School for You
Out of all the majors we analyze each year, music was ranked #43 in the country. In fact 25,910 degrees and certificates were handed out 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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 12 schools in the Southeast Region to see which graduate certificate 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.
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.
Top 10 Best Music Graduate Certificate Schools
Our analysis found Liberty University to be the best value school for music students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Southeast Region . Located in the small city of Lynchburg, Liberty University is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Liberty University are $8,360 a year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Central Arkansas. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list. UCA is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Conway.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UCA are $11,835 a year.
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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Columbus State University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value music schools in the Southeast Region . CSU is a moderately-sized public school located in the midsize city of Columbus.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at CSU are $13,264 a year.
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Out of the 12 schools in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Carolina School of the Arts landed the # 4 spot on the list. UNCSA is a small public school located in the city of Winston-Salem.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNCSA are $26,343 per year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list. UT Knoxville is a very large public school located in the midsize city of Knoxville.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UT Knoxville are $31,798 a year.
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University of South Carolina - Columbia came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Located in the city of Columbia, UofSC is a public school with a fairly large student population.
UofSC graduate students pay an average of $30,160 in tuition and fees each year.
UofSC also claimed a spot on our Best Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category.
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University of North Carolina at Greensboro did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for music students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #7 on the list. UNC Greensboro is a fairly large public school located in the city of Greensboro.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNC Greensboro are $21,983 per year.
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Georgia State University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Music Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Georgia State is a very large public school located in the large city of Atlanta.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Georgia State are $24,790 a year.
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University of Kentucky did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for music students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #9 on the list. Located in the city of Lexington, UK is a public school with a fairly large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UK are $33,548 a year.
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Belhaven University landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate music programs. Belhaven is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Jackson.
Belhaven graduate students pay an average of $10,980 in tuition and fees each year.
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Explore the best music colleges for a specific state in the Southeast region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Georgia | 472 |
| Virginia | 632 |
| North Carolina | 511 |
| Florida | 1,223 |
| Tennessee | 804 |
| Kentucky | 284 |
| South Carolina | 204 |
| Louisiana | 315 |
| Arkansas | 184 |
| Alabama | 276 |
| Mississippi | 182 |
| West Virginia | 93 |
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Majors Related to Music
Music is one of 10 different types of programs to choose from.
Most Popular Related Majors
| 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 12 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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