Music at Harvard University

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

Harvard is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and approximately 30,391 students attend the school each year. Of the 1,618 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 2021, 7 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.

Harvard Music Degrees Available

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

Harvard Music Rankings

The music major at Harvard 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.

In 2021, 12 students received their master’s degree in music from Harvard. This makes it the #133 most popular school for music master’s degree candidates in the country.

There were 5 students who received their doctoral degrees in music, making the school the #67 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Music Student Demographics at Harvard

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

Harvard Music Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 7 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in music from Harvard. About 29% were men and 71% were women. The typical music bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% women. So female students are more repesented at Harvard since its program graduates 26% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 42% 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 Harvard University with a bachelor's in music.

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

Harvard Music Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 67% of music master's degrees went to men and 33% went to women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	2
International Students	8
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Harvard also has a doctoral program available in music. In 2021, 5 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Film, Video & Photographic Arts
• Design & Applied Arts
• Fine & Studio Arts
• General Visual & Performing 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 MA, the home state for Harvard University.

Occupation	Jobs in MA	Average Salary in MA
High School Teachers	26,420	$80,020
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	6,190	$99,540
Music Directors and Composers	260	$56,200
Sound Engineering Technicians	190	$57,110

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 Elisa.rolle under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.