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2023 Best Value Music Schools in Rhode Island

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$29,446 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$33,917 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Music 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 Schools in Rhode Island ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Rhode Island to see which 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.

2023 Best Value Music Schools in Rhode Island

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for music majors pursuing a .

Best Rhode Island Schools for Affordable Quality in Music

#1

Rhode Island College

Providence, RI
$10,702 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Rhode Island College the best value school in Rhode Island for music students. 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. After completing their degree, music graduates from RIC carry an average student debtload of $16,274.

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$15,332 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 3 schools in Rhode Island that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Rhode Island landed the # 2 spot on the list. URI is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Kingston.

URI undergraduate students pay an average of $15,332 in in-state tuition and fees each year. The average amount in student loans that music majors at URI take out is $27,000.

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#3

Brown University

Providence, RI
$62,304 Average Tuition & Fees

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

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Brown are $62,304 a year.

Brown did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Music Schools in Rhode Island list.

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Best Value Music Colleges in the New England Region

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

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

More Music Rankings in Rhode Island

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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