2022 Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region

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In 2019-2020, 7,957 people earned their degree in music performance, making the major the 103rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Rocky Mountains region, there were 238 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 30 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,140 and $97,138 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great music performance programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the music performance program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Music Performance in the Rocky Mountains Region

#1

University of Colorado Boulder

Boulder, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$32,980 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Doctorate in the Rocky Mountains Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado Boulder landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Boulder, Colorado, this large public school handed out 30 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s music performance students in 2019-2020.

CU - Boulder did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Music Performance Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at CU - Boulder are $32,980, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Music Performance at University of Colorado Boulder

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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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