2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Music Theory & Composition in North Carolina

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Music Composition Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Music Theory & Composition is the 415th most popular major in the country with 1,117 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across North Carolina, there were 8 music theory and composition graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 2 music theory and composition graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,088 and $45,388 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality music theory and composition 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 music theory and composition 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Music Composition Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Music Composition Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Music Composition Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Music Theory & Composition in North Carolina

#1

University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Greensboro, North Carolina

#1 in overall quality

$21,918 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Music Composition Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina. University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a fairly large school located in Greensboro, North Carolina that handed out 2 masters’s music composition degrees in 2019-2020.

UNC Greensboro did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Music Theory & Composition Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of North Carolina at Greensboro are $21,918, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Music Theory & Composition at UNC Greensboro

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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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