Musical Theater at Emerson College

47% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

If you plan to study musical theater, take a look at what Emerson College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Emerson is located in Boston, Massachusetts and approximately 5,115 students attend the school each year.

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

Emerson Musical Theater Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Musical Theatre

Emerson Musical Theater Rankings

The musical theatre major at Emerson is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Musical Theater. 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.

Musical Theatre Student Demographics at Emerson

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the musical theatre majors at Emerson College.

Emerson Musical Theater Bachelor’s Program

65% Women

47% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 35% of musical theatre bachelor's degrees went to men and 65% went to women. The typical musical theatre bachelor's degree program is made up of only 32% men. So male students are more repesented at Emerson since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

About 53% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in musical theatre at Emerson are white. This is below average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 16% more racial-ethnic minorities in its musical theatre bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Emerson College with a bachelor's in musical theatre.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	9
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Careers That Musical Theatre Grads May Go Into

A degree in musical theatre can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for Emerson College.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	6,190	$99,540
Producers and Directors	3,250	$70,480

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
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