Music at Southern Connecticut State University

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

SCSU is located in New Haven, Connecticut and has a total student population of 9,331. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students received a bachelor's degree in music from SCSU.

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

SCSU Music Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Music

SCSU Music Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks music programs across the country. The following shows how SCSU performed in these rankings.

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 SCSU 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
	193
Most Popular Music Schools	712
Most Focused Music Bachelor’s Degree Schools	836

Music Student Demographics at SCSU

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

SCSU Music Bachelor’s Program

Of the 5 music students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from SCSU, about 20% were men and 80% were women. The typical music bachelor's degree program is made up of only 46% women. So female students are more repesented at SCSU since its program graduates 34% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 31% 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 Southern Connecticut State University 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	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

SCSU 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 CT, the home state for Southern Connecticut State University.

Occupation	Jobs in CT	Average Salary in CT
High School Teachers	15,410	$76,980
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	1,090	$93,250
Music Directors and Composers	130	$77,550
Sound Engineering Technicians	100	$87,420

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 Southern Connecticut State University under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.