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Art, music & theater at UT Austin

UT Austin graduates about 390 art, music & theater majors a year, 4% 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. Graduates in the major earn a median $52,000 four years out, 1.22× what the same major pays nationally.

86/100Standout#44 of 668 for art, music & theater →
Graduates a year3904% of the class
Median pay 4 years out$52,0001.22× the same major nationally
Research in the field$920Ka year, NSF
Admit rate27%whole school
SAT middle 50%1230–1500whole school

Around UT Austin

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Bass Concert Hall - UT Austin (54985000414)Photo: ajay_suresh · CC BY 4.0 · source
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Looking north from the Stadium
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Alpha Phi Omega runs the flag before home games; always a crowd pleaser!
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Where art, music & theater happens

Buildings on campus that fit the field: Laboratory Theatre Building, Blanton Museum of Art, Art Building and Museum, E. William Doty Fine Arts Building, Texas Memorial Museum, Music Building East, College of Fine Arts Performing Arts Center, Music Recital Hall, Arthur P. Watson House.

Named buildings on the campus map: Academic 142 · Dorm 16 · Athletics 11 · Arts 7 · Chapel 3 · Library 3.

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Nearby in the art, music & theater ranking

  1. Smith College 87
  2. Whitman College 87
  3. Trinity College 87
  4. Reed College 87
  5. University of California, Berkeley 86
  6. Northeastern University 86
  7. Denison University 86
  8. Stanford University 86

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How the score works

The score is out of 100 and compares UT Austin 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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