Art, music & theater at Illinois
Illinois graduates about 218 art, music & theater majors a year, 3% of its graduating class. That puts it 75th of 668 schools we score for art, music & theater, a standout program at 82 out of 100. Graduates in the major earn a median $52,000 four years out, 1.23× what the same major pays nationally. Research spending in the field runs about $2 million a year, a rough guide to how many labs and projects undergraduates can join.
Around Illinois
Where art, music & theater happens
Buildings on campus that fit the field: Art Annex Studio 1, Art Annex Studio 2, Dance Administration Building, Spurlock Museum, Music and Performing Arts Library, Music Building, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Dance Studio, Foellinger Auditorium, Japan House.
Named buildings on the campus map: Academic 144 · Student housing 84 · Dorm 45 · Athletics 22 · Arts 9 · Dining 6.
Nearby in the art, music & theater ranking
Other strong majors at Illinois
- Engineering (all) 90 · #27
- Communications & media 90 · #17
- Computer science 89 · #36
- Math & statistics 86 · #52
- Political science & IR 83 · #71
- Physics & astronomy 83 · #63
How the score works
The score is out of 100 and compares Illinois with every school we score in art, music & theater. It weighs the school's overall strength; how many students graduate in the major and what share of the class they are; research spending in the field (NSF); early pay against the same major nationally; how many courses the catalog lists; and test scores. 80+ is a standout program, 65+ strong, 45+ solid. Sources: US Department of Education (College Scorecard, IPEDS), NSF HERD, each school's current course catalog, OpenStreetMap and Wikimedia Commons.