Music at Alabama A & M University

If you plan to study music, take a look at what Alabama A & M University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

AAMU is located in Normal, Alabama and approximately 5,977 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 11 students received a bachelor's degree in music from AAMU.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Music section at the bottom of this page.

AAMU Music Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Music

AAMU Music Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the music progam at AAMU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The music major at AAMU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Music. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools	218
Most Popular Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools	365

Music Student Demographics at AAMU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the music majors at Alabama A & M University.

AAMU Music Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 11 music majors earned their bachelor's degree from AAMU. Of these graduates, 27% were men and 73% were women. The typical music bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% women. So female students are more repesented at AAMU since its program graduates 27% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 71% more racial-ethnic minorities in its music bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Alabama A & M University with a bachelor's in music.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	0
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

AAMU also has a doctoral program available in music. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Fine & Studio Arts

Careers That Music Grads May Go Into

A degree in music can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for AL, the home state for Alabama A & M University.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
High School Teachers	16,270	$51,180
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	730	$65,560
Music Directors and Composers	80	$75,050
Sound Engineering Technicians	60	$39,140

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Spyder_Monkey under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.