Music at Lake Forest College

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

Lake Forest is located in Lake Forest, Illinois and has a total student population of 1,583. In 2021, 3 music majors received their bachelor's degree from Lake Forest.

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

Lake Forest Music Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Music

Lake Forest Music Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The music major at Lake Forest 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	477
Most Focused Music Schools	603
Most Popular Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools	730

Music Student Demographics at Lake Forest

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

Lake Forest Music Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 3 music majors earned their bachelor's degree from Lake Forest. Of these graduates, 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 Lake Forest since its program graduates 54% more women than average.

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 Lake Forest College with a bachelor's in music.

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

Lake Forest 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

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 IL, the home state for Lake Forest College.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
High School Teachers	43,720	$72,370
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	3,940	$68,360
Music Directors and Composers	370	$40,220
Sound Engineering Technicians	220	$60,500

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 Eudaimonia86 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.