2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Music in Washington

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Washington” 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 Washington, there were 437 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $18,350 and $25,010 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 57 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,441 and $15,677 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Music Schools for an Associate in Washington” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in music. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent music programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the music 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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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Music Schools for an Associate in Washington” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Music Schools for an Associate in Washington

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

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Music in Washington

#1

Bellevue College

Bellevue, Washington

#1 in overall quality

$7,870 Average Net Price

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bellevue College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Music Schools for an Associate in Washington. Bellevue, Washington is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out associates’s music degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

BC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Music Associate Degree Schools in Washington” ranking. It costs about $7,870 for Washington Associate Degree Music students per year to attend BC.

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#2

Spokane Falls Community College

Spokane, Washington

#2 in overall quality

$6,763 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Music Schools for an Associate in Washington that were part of this year’s ranking, Spokane Falls Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Spokane Falls Community College is located in Spokane, Washington and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 1 associates’s music degrees to qualified students.

Spokane Falls Community College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Music Associate Degree Schools in Washington” list. It costs about $6,763 for Washington Associate Degree Music students per year to attend Spokane Falls Community College.

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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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