2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Music in the Southwest Region
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2019-2020, 11,573 people earned their degree in general music, making the major the 68th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 1,757 general music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 1,084 general music graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 45 colleges that offer a degree in general music. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great general music programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the general music program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region.
Top 25 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Music in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend West Texas A&M University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region. Located in Canyon, Texas, this fairly large public school awarded 51 degrees to qualified bachelors’s general music students in 2019-2020.
West Texas A&M University also made our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #10. It costs about $12,761 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general music students per year to attend West Texas A&M University.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Located in Edinburg, Texas, this large public school awarded 32 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s general music students in 2019-2020.
UT Rio Grande Valley also made our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #4. The estimated yearly cost for UT Rio Grande Valley is $4,514 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general music students.
The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 45 schools in the Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston landed the #3 spot on the list. UH is a public institution located in Houston, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 39 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
UH also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend UH is $12,838 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general music students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Texas at San Antonio. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. The University of Texas at San Antonio is a large school located in San Antonio, Texas that handed out 42 bachelors’s general music degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UTSA, the school also landed the #9 spot in our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $13,853 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Music students per year to attend UTSA.
Read full report on General Music at The University of Texas at San Antonio
Out of the 45 schools in the Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of North Texas landed the #5 spot on the list. UNT is a public institution located in Denton, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 101 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree general music students list, UNT has also earned the #8 rank in our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of North Texas is $15,086 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Music students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
Tarleton State University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #6. This fairly large school is located in Stephenville, Texas, and it awarded 9 bachelors’s general music degrees in 2019-2020.
Tarleton also made our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #19. It costs about $18,979 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general music students per year to attend Tarleton.
Sam Houston State University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking. SHSU is a large public school situated in Huntsville, Texas. It awarded 44 bachelors’s general music degrees in 2019-2020.
SHSU also made our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #14. It costs about $14,617 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general music students per year to attend SHSU.
Texas Tech University landed the #8 spot on the 2022 Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking. Texas Tech University is a large school located in Lubbock, Texas that handed out 63 bachelors’s general music degrees in 2019-2020.
Texas Tech also took the #5 spot in our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $17,571 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Music students per year to attend Texas Tech University.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.
Stephen F Austin State University landed the #9 spot on the 2022 Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking. Stephen F Austin State University is a public institution located in Nacogdoches, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 83 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
SFASU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #11 on our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for SFASU is $13,723 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general music students.
Texas State University ranked #10 on this year’s Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Texas State is located in San Marcos, Texas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 57 bachelors’s general music degrees to qualified students.
Texas State also took the #7 spot in our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Texas State is $15,230 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Music students.
University of Central Oklahoma ranked #11 on this year’s Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. UCO is located in Edmond, Oklahoma and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s general music degrees to qualified students.
In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree general music students list, UCO has also earned the #23 rank in our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $16,562 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general music students per year to attend University of Central Oklahoma.
Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus ranked #12 on this year’s Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus is a public institution located in Portales, New Mexico. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
It costs about $9,516 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general music students per year to attend Eastern New Mexico University - Main Campus.
Texas A&M International University landed the #13 spot on the 2022 Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking. Texas A&M International University is located in Laredo, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 9 bachelors’s general music degrees to qualified students.
Texas A&M International University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #21 on our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Texas A&M International University is $3,074 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general music students.
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Texas Woman’s University did quite well in the 2022 Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #14. Texas Woman’s University is located in Denton, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 27 bachelors’s general music degrees to qualified students.
TWU also took the #22 spot in our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Texas Woman’s University is $9,617 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general music students.
Texas A&M University - Commerce ranked #15 on this year’s Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Texas A&M University - Commerce is a public institution located in Commerce, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 29 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
Texas A&M Commerce also took the #16 spot in our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Texas A&M Commerce is $13,017 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general music students.
Texas A&M University - Kingsville landed the #16 spot on the 2022 Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking. Kingsville, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general music degrees to 27 students in 2019-2020.
Texas A&M Kingsville also took the #13 spot in our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Texas A&M Kingsville is $13,778 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general music students.
Read full report on General Music at Texas A&M University - Kingsville
University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma came in at #17 in this year’s edition of the Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking. This small school is located in Chickasha, Oklahoma, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s general music degrees in 2019-2020.
It costs about $8,607 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general music students per year to attend University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma.
Read full report on General Music at University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
The University of Texas at El Paso ranked #18 on this year’s Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. The University of Texas at El Paso is a public institution located in El Paso, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 15 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
UTEP also made our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #15. The estimated yearly cost for UTEP is $8,920 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Music students.
With a ranking of #19, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi did quite well on the 2022 Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi is a public institution located in Corpus Christi, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 16 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
Texas A&M Corpus Christi did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #25 on our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $16,332 for southwest region bachelor’s degree general music students per year to attend Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi.
Full Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi General Music Report
With a ranking of #20, Oklahoma State University - Main Campus did quite well on the 2022 Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Stillwater, Oklahoma is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s general music degrees to 19 students in 2019-2020.
OSU also took the #20 spot in our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $14,648 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Music students per year to attend Oklahoma State University - Main Campus.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
The University of Texas at Tyler ranked #21 on this year’s Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. This medium-sized school is located in Tyler, Texas, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s general music degrees in 2019-2020.
The estimated yearly cost for The University of Texas at Tyler is $10,974 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Music students.
Read full report on General Music at The University of Texas at Tyler
Northern Arizona University ranked #22 on this year’s Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. NAU is a large public school situated in Flagstaff, Arizona. It awarded 3 bachelors’s general music degrees in 2019-2020.
The estimated yearly cost for NAU is $12,915 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Music students.
With a ranking of #23, Northeastern State University did quite well on the 2022 Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. NSU is located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s general music degrees to qualified students.
It costs about $9,994 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Music students per year to attend Northeastern State University.
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University of Oklahoma Norman Campus came in at #24 in this year’s edition of the Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking. University of Oklahoma is a public institution located in Norman, Oklahoma. The school has a large population, and it awarded 36 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.
University of Oklahoma also took the #24 spot in our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for University of Oklahoma is $21,145 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Music students.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The student loan default rate at the school is 4.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
The University of Texas at Arlington came in at #25 in this year’s edition of the Best Value General Music Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region ranking. The University of Texas at Arlington is a large public school situated in Arlington, Texas. It awarded 37 bachelors’s general music degrees in 2019-2020.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UT Arlington, the school also landed the #17 spot in our “Best General Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for The University of Texas at Arlington is $14,246 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree General Music students.
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References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
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- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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