Music at Pacific University

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

Pacific is located in Forest Grove, Oregon and approximately 3,808 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 6 students received a bachelor's degree in music from Pacific.

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

Pacific Music Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Music

Pacific Music Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the music progam at Pacific 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 Pacific 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 Popular Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools	543
Most Popular Music Schools	658

Music Student Demographics at Pacific

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

Pacific Music Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 6 students earned a bachelor's degree in music from Pacific. About 83% of these graduates were women and the other 17% were men. The typical music bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% women. So female students are more repesented at Pacific since its program graduates 37% more women than average.

About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in music at Pacific are white. This is above average 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 Pacific University with a bachelor's in music.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• Dance
• General Visual & Performing Arts
• Film, Video & Photographic Arts
• 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 OR, the home state for Pacific University.

Occupation	Jobs in OR	Average Salary in OR
High School Teachers	10,390	$72,640
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	1,350	$75,800
Music Directors and Composers	830	$46,000
Sound Engineering Technicians	400	$43,180

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 M.O. Stevens under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.