Music at Kentucky Wesleyan College

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

Wesleyan is located in Owensboro, Kentucky and approximately 887 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 3 students received a bachelor's degree in music from Wesleyan.

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

Wesleyan Music Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Music

Wesleyan Music Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the music progam at Wesleyan compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The music major at Wesleyan 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
Most Focused Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools	153
Most Focused Music Schools	210
Most Popular Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools	730
Most Popular Music Schools	892

Music Student Demographics at Wesleyan

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

Wesleyan Music Bachelor’s Program

Of the 3 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in music from Wesleyan in 2021, 0% were men and 100% were women. The typical music bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% women. So female students are more repesented at Wesleyan since its program graduates 54% more women than average.

About 100% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in music at Wesleyan are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Drama & Theater Arts
• Fine & Studio Arts
• Design & Applied 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 KY, the home state for Kentucky Wesleyan College.

Occupation	Jobs in KY	Average Salary in KY
High School Teachers	12,250	$56,200
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	790	$76,750
Sound Engineering Technicians	60	$53,490
Music Directors and Composers	40	$49,610

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 Matthewru under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.