2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Music in Oregon

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Music Schools for an Associate in Oregon” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Music is the 40th most popular major in the country with 27,047 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, music graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $25,639 and had an average of $28,653 in loans still to pay off.

Across Oregon, there were 271 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $20,550 and $29,640 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 23 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Music Schools for an Associate in Oregon” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in music. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great 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 music program at the school. 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 Schools for an Associate in Oregon” list to help you make the college decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

Best Value Music Schools for an Associate in Oregon

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Music Schools for an Associate in Oregon.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Music in Oregon

#1

Portland Community College

Portland, Oregon

#1 in overall quality

$8,914 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Music Schools for an Associate in Oregon that were part of this year’s ranking, Portland Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Portland Community College is a large public school situated in Portland, Oregon. It awarded 17 associates’s music degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Portland Community College, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Music Associate Degree Schools in Oregon” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Portland Community College is $8,914 for oregon associate degree music students.

Read more about Music at Portland Community College

#2

Mt. Hood Community College

Gresham, Oregon

#2 in overall quality

$7,211 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Music Schools for an Associate in Oregon that were part of this year’s ranking, Mt. Hood Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Gresham, Oregon, this medium-sized public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified associates’s music students in 2019-2020.

MHCC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Music Associate Degree Schools in Oregon” list. It costs about $7,211 for Oregon Associate Degree Music students per year to attend Mt. Hood Community College.

Read more about Music at MHCC

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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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