2022 Best Value General Music Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee

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 Master’s in Tennessee” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

General Music is the 68th most popular major in the country with 11,573 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Tennessee, there were 348 general music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 72 general music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value General Music Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general music. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality general music programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the general music program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value General Music Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value General Music Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Music in Tennessee

#1

The University of Tennessee - Knoxville

Knoxville, Tennessee

#1 in overall quality

$31,798 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value General Music Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee list. Knoxville, Tennessee is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s general music degrees to 31 students in 2019-2020.

UT Knoxville not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best General Music Master’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville are $31,798.

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#2

University of Memphis

Memphis, Tennessee

#2 in overall quality

$14,202 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Memphis. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value General Music Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee. Memphis, Tennessee is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s general music degrees to 22 students in 2019-2020.

UofM not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best General Music Master’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Memphis are $14,202, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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#3

Austin Peay State University

Clarksville, Tennessee

#3 in overall quality

$14,669 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Austin Peay State University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value General Music Schools for a Master’s in Tennessee. Austin Peay State University is a fairly large public school situated in Clarksville, Tennessee. It awarded 12 masters’s general music degrees in 2019-2020.

Austin Peay State University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best General Music Master’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Austin Peay State University are $14,669.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Music in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for General Music

Notes and References

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%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *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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