Music Performance at Baylor University

Every music performance school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the music performance program at Baylor University stacks up to those at other schools.

Baylor is located in Waco, Texas and approximately 19,297 students attend the school each year.

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

Baylor Music Performance Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance
• Master’s Degree in Music Performance

Baylor Music Performance Rankings

The music performance major at Baylor is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Music Performance. 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.

Music Performance Student Demographics at Baylor

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the music performance majors at Baylor University.

Baylor Music Performance Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 53% of music performance bachelor's degrees went to men and 47% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 20% more racial-ethnic minorities in its music performance bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	9
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Baylor Music Performance Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 61% of music performance master's degrees went to men and 39% went to women.

Of the students who received a music performance master's degree from Baylor, 56% were white. This is typical for this degree on the natiowide level. In the music performance master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 39% of degree recipients. That is 11% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Baylor University with a master's in music performance.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	10
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• General Music
• Music Pedagogy
• Conducting
• Music Theory & Composition
• Keyboard Instruments

Careers That Music Performance Grads May Go Into

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

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	6,240	$71,520
Music Directors and Composers	890	$61,210

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 Kairos14 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.