Music at Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt graduates about 50 music majors a year, 2% of its graduating class. That puts it 1st of 749 schools we score for music, a standout program at 100 out of 100. Graduates in the major earn a median $59,000 four years out, 1.36× what the same major pays nationally. Research spending in the field runs about $8 million a year, a rough guide to how many labs and projects undergraduates can join.
Around Vanderbilt
Where music happens
Buildings on campus that fit the field: Martha River Ingram Center for the Performing Arts.
Named buildings on the campus map: Academic 83 · Dorm 40 · Student housing 10 · Athletics 7 · Arts 6 · Library 4.
Nearby in the music ranking
Other strong majors at Vanderbilt
- Political science & IR 96 · #10
- Languages 96 · #10
- Economics 95 · #17
- Art, music & theater 95 · #9
- Sociology & anthropology 94 · #11
- Art & design 93 · #15
How the score works
The score is out of 100 and compares Vanderbilt with every school we score in music. It weighs what graduates earn four years out against the same major nationally (25%), research spending in the field (20%, NSF), how many undergraduate courses the department lists (20%), the student body's test scores (20%) and the size of the program (15%, capped so size alone can't win). 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.