Music at Baruch College

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

Baruch is located in New York, New York and approximately 19,740 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 5 music majors received their bachelor's degree from Baruch.

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

Baruch Music Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Music

Baruch Music Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the music progam at Baruch 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 Baruch 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
Best Value Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools	167
	270
Best Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools	442

How Much Do Music Graduates from Baruch Make?

The median salary of music students who receive their bachelor's degree at Baruch is $26,012. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 4% higher than the national average of $24,982 for all music bachelor's degree recipients.

Music Student Demographics at Baruch

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

Baruch Music Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in music from Baruch. About 20% were men and 80% were women. The typical music bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% women. So female students are more repesented at Baruch since its program graduates 34% 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 Baruch College with a bachelor's in music.

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

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

Related Majors

• Arts & Media Management

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 NY, the home state for Baruch College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
High School Teachers	74,830	$85,300
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	11,530	$99,870
Music Directors and Composers	2,780	$66,120
Sound Engineering Technicians	1,770	$82,030

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 Beyond My Ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.