Music at Berea College

If you are interested in studying music, you may want to check out the program at Berea College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Berea is located in Berea, Kentucky and approximately 1,432 students attend the school each year. Of the 299 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Berea College in 2021, 5 of them were music majors.

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

Berea Music Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Music

Berea Music Rankings

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

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The music major at Berea 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	156
Most Focused Music Schools	215
Most Popular Music Schools	712

Music Student Demographics at Berea

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the music majors at Berea College.

Berea Music Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students earned a bachelor's degree in music from Berea. About 60% of these graduates were women and the other 40% were men. The typical music bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% women. So female students are more repesented at Berea since its program graduates 14% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 51% 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 Berea College with a bachelor's in music.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	0
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Drama & Theater Arts
• 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 KY, the home state for Berea College.

Occupation	Jobs in KY	Average Salary in KY
High School Teachers	12,250	$56,200
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	790	$76,750
Sound Engineering Technicians	60	$53,490
Music Directors and Composers	40	$49,610

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 Rachid Hogerhuis under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.