Visual & Performing Arts at California State University - Monterey Bay

If you are interested in studying visual & performing arts, you may want to check out the program at California State University - Monterey Bay. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

CSUMB is located in Seaside, California and approximately 7,409 students attend the school each year.

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

CSUMB Visual & Performing Arts Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Visual & Performing Arts

CSUMB Visual & Performing Arts Rankings

The visual & performing arts major at CSUMB is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Visual & Performing Arts. 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.

Visual & Performing Arts Student Demographics at CSUMB

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the visual & performing arts majors at California State University - Monterey Bay.

CSUMB Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of visual & performing arts bachelor's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical visual & performing arts bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at CSUMB since its program graduates 13% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 28% more racial-ethnic minorities in its visual & performing arts bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from California State University - Monterey Bay with a bachelor's in visual & performing arts.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	37
White	23
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	12

Concentrations Within Visual & Performing Arts

If you plan to be a visual & performing arts major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from California State University - Monterey Bay. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Design & Applied Arts	32
Music	15
Fine & Studio Arts	9

Careers That Visual & Performing Arts Grads May Go Into

A degree in visual & performing arts can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for CA, the home state for California State University - Monterey Bay.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
High School Teachers	112,960	$80,510
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Graphic Designers	29,320	$61,100
Producers and Directors	25,320	$115,080

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 DirectorG at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.