Music at Pomona College

If you are interested in studying music, you may want to check out the program at Pomona College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Pomona is located in Claremont, California and has a total student population of 1,475. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 4 students received a bachelor's degree in music from Pomona.

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

Pomona Music Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Music

Pomona Music Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the music progam at Pomona 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 Pomona 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	308
Most Focused Music Schools	399
Most Popular Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools	658
Most Popular Music Schools	797

Music Student Demographics at Pomona

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

Pomona Music Bachelor’s Program

Of the 4 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Music from Pomona in 2020-2021, 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 Pomona since its program graduates 54% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 21% 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 Pomona College with a bachelor's in music.

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

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

Related Majors

• Dance
• Fine & Studio Arts
• 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 CA, the home state for Pomona College.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
High School Teachers	112,960	$80,510
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	9,710	$115,460
Music Directors and Composers	1,230	$64,600

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 Nostalgicwisdom under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.