2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Music in Arkansas

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Music Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Arkansas, there were 213 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,900 and $21,358 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 38 music graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,293 and $39,432 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Music Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.

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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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Music Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Value Music Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas

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

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

#1

University of Central Arkansas

Conway, Arkansas

#2 in overall quality

$11,648 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$45,696 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Music Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Arkansas landed the #1 spot on the list. Conway, Arkansas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s music degrees to 12 students in 2019-2020.

UCA not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Music Master’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Central Arkansas are $11,648, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full UCA Music Report

#2

University of Arkansas

Fayetteville, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$22,121 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$40,188 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arkansas. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Music Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas. UARK is located in Fayetteville, Arkansas and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 13 masters’s music degrees to qualified students.

UARK also took the #1 spot in our “Best Music 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 UARK are $22,121.

Read full report on Music at UARK

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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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