Music at Ithaca College

Every music school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the music program at Ithaca College stacks up to those at other schools.

Ithaca is located in Ithaca, New York and has a total student population of 5,354.

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

Ithaca Music Degrees Available

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

Ithaca Music Rankings

The music major at Ithaca 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.

Music Student Demographics at Ithaca

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

Ithaca Music Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 40% of music bachelor's degrees went to men and 60% went to women. The typical music bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% women. So female students are more repesented at Ithaca since its program graduates 14% more women than average.

About 56% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in music at Ithaca are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 4% 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 Ithaca College with a bachelor's in music.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	9
White	29
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

Ithaca Music Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 58% of music master's degrees went to men and 42% went to women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	6
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Concentrations Within Music

Music majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Ithaca College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Music Performance	29
General Music	19
Music Theory & Composition	11
Conducting	4
Music Pedagogy	3
Woodwind Instruments	3
Jazz Studies	2
Brass Instruments	2
Percussion Instruments	2

Related Majors

• Arts & Media Management
• Fine & Studio Arts
• Drama & Theater Arts
• Film, Video & Photographic 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 NY, the home state for Ithaca 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 Mr Senseless under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.