2022 Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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

Across Arkansas, there were 112 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 29 music performance graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,293 and $39,432 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in music performance. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent music performance programs, but they also 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 music performance program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas

The colleges and universities below are the best for arkansas master’s degree music performance students.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Music Performance in Arkansas

#1

University of Central Arkansas

Conway, Arkansas

#2 in overall quality

$11,648 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Central Arkansas. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas list. Conway, Arkansas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s music performance degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UCA, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Music Performance Master’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Central Arkansas are $11,648.

Read more about Music Performance at UCA

#2

University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$22,121 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Music Performance Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arkansas landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Fayetteville, Arkansas, this large public school handed out 13 diplomas to qualified masters’s music performance students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UARK, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Music Performance Master’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Arkansas are $22,121, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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