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Art, music & theater at Stanford

Stanford graduates about 38 art, music & theater majors a year, 2% of its graduating class. That puts it 44th of 668 schools we score for art, music & theater, a standout program at 86 out of 100.

86/100Standout#44 of 668 for art, music & theater →
Graduates a year382% of the class
Research in the field$325Ka year, NSF
Admit rate4%whole school
SAT middle 50%1500–1580whole school

Around Stanford

Ge Wang giving his talk "Music and Artificial Intelligence: What Do We (Really)
Ge Wang Stanford October 2024Photo: King of Hearts · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Empty research 3-Tesla MRI (GE Signa UHP) at Stanford University
GE Signa UHP MRIPhoto: BrokenSegue · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Stanford 2022 Power Outage
Stanford 2022 Power Outage (52169399709)Photo: Yanay Rosen · Public domain · source
Stanford University
Stanford University - panoramioPhoto: Toshihiro Matsui · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source

Where art, music & theater happens

Buildings on campus that fit the field: Dinkelspiel Memorial Music Auditorium, Braun Music Center, Stanford Art Gallery, McMurtry Art, Cantor Arts Center, Bing Concert Hall.

Named buildings on the campus map: Academic 127 · Dorm 58 · Athletics 26 · Dining 11 · Arts 7 · Library 5.

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Nearby in the art, music & theater ranking

  1. The University of Texas–Austin 86
  2. University of California, Berkeley 86
  3. Northeastern University 86
  4. Denison University 86
  5. Lafayette College 86
  6. University of California, Davis 85
  7. University of California, Los Angeles 85
  8. University of Washington 85

Other strong majors at Stanford

How the score works

The score is out of 100 and compares Stanford 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.

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