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2023 Best Value Music Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$47,800 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$17,937 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Music Undergraduate 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. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Music Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in the New England Region to see which ones offered the best value undergraduate certificate 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.

2023 Best Value Music Undergraduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

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

Best New England Region Schools for Affordable Quality for an Award Taking 1 to 4 Years in Music

Our analysis found Longy School of Music of Bard College to be the best value school for music students who want to pursue a undergraduate certificate in the New England Region . Located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge, Longy is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Longy are $48,800 a year.

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The excellent undergraduate certificate programs at Berklee College of Music helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value music schools in the New England Region . Berklee College of Music is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Boston.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Berklee College of Music are $46,800 a year. Music majors at Berklee College of Music take out an average of $30,589 in student loans while working on their Undergraduate Certificate.

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#3

Yale University

New Haven, CT

The excellent undergraduate certificate programs at Yale University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value music schools in the New England Region . Yale is a large private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of New Haven.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Yale are $59,950 per year.

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Best Music Colleges by State

Explore the best music schools for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 1,453
Connecticut 423
New Hampshire 46
Maine 55
Rhode Island 72
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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