Art, music & theater at UC Irvine
UC Irvine graduates about 461 art, music & theater majors a year, 5% of its graduating class. That puts it 103rd of 668 schools we score for art, music & theater, a strong program at 78 out of 100. Graduates in the major earn a median $44,000 four years out, 1.06× 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 UC Irvine
Where art, music & theater happens
Buildings on campus that fit the field: Arts Annex, Production Studio, Robert Cohen Theatre & Dance Stuios, Claire Trevor Theatre, Contemporary Arts Center, Mesa Arts Building, Art Studio, Music and Media Building, William J. Gillespie Performance Studios, Studio Four, Art Culture & Technology, Irvine Barclay Theatre.
Named buildings on the campus map: Dorm 128 · Academic 107 · Student housing 52 · Offices 16 · Athletics 7 · Arts 5.
Nearby in the art, music & theater ranking
Other strong majors at UC Irvine
- Psychology 83 · #44
- Engineering (all) 83 · #62
- Sociology & anthropology 82 · #80
- Computer science 81 · #75
- Economics 81 · #87
- Physics & astronomy 81 · #70
How the score works
The score is out of 100 and compares UC Irvine 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.