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Art, music & theater at USC

USC graduates about 657 art, music & theater majors a year, 12% of its graduating class. That puts it 1st of 668 schools we score for art, music & theater, a standout program at 96 out of 100. Graduates in the major earn a median $56,000 four years out, 1.27× what the same major pays nationally. Research spending in the field runs about $3 million a year, a rough guide to how many labs and projects undergraduates can join.

96/100Standout#1 of 668 for art, music & theater →
Graduates a year65712% of the class
Median pay 4 years out$56,0001.27× the same major nationally
Research in the field$3Ma year, NSF
Admit rate10%whole school
SAT middle 50%1450–1550whole school

Around USC

Madilyn Bailey judging and performing for iVoice 2016 at Bovard Auditorium on th
Madilyn Bailey 11 10 2016 -8 (30839861451)Photo: Justin Higuchi from Los Angeles, CA, USA · CC BY 2.0 · source
USC Physical Education Building (PED), designed by Parkinson & Parkinson as
Physical education building 1Photo: Seauton 13 April 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Ernie Shelton (sculptor), The Wild Bunch - Sporting Sculpture - Campus of Univer
Sporting Sculpture - Campus of University of Southern California - Los Angeles, Photo: Adam Jones, 2012-02-26 12:59, from Kelowna, BC, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
"Evelia de Pie", sculpture by Francisco Zúñiga, Anna Bing Arnold Sculpture Garde
Zuniga evelia de pie 1Photo: Seauton 13 April 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Where art, music & theater happens

Buildings on campus that fit the field: Glorya Kaufman International Dance Center, Scene Dock Theatre, Technical Theatre Laboratory, The Music Complex, School of Cinematic Arts - SCX, Virginia Ramo Hall of Music, Elvon and Mabel Musick Law Building, Grace Ford Salvatori Hall of Letters, Arts and Sciences, School of Cinematic Arts - SCC, School of Cinematic Arts - SCE, Ray and Nadine Watt Hall of Architecture and Fine Arts, Parkside Arts and Humanities Residential College.

Named buildings on the campus map: Academic 106 · Dorm 15 · Arts 7 · Library 4 · Athletics 3 · Chapel 2.

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Nearby in the art, music & theater ranking

  1. Carnegie Mellon University 96
  2. New York University 95
  3. Northwestern University 95
  4. Vanderbilt University 95

Other strong majors at USC

How the score works

The score is out of 100 and compares USC 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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