Music at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology stacks up to those at other schools.

MIT is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts and approximately 11,254 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 14 students received a bachelor's degree in music from MIT.

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

MIT Music Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Music

MIT Music Rankings

The music major at MIT 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 MIT

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the music majors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MIT Music Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 14 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in music from MIT. About 50% were men and 50% were women. The typical music bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% women. So female students are more repesented at MIT since its program graduates 4% 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor's in music.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	3
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

MIT 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

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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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 InSapphoWeTrust under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.