Jazz Studies at The Juilliard School

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

Juilliard is located in New York, New York and approximately 961 students attend the school each year.

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

Juilliard Jazz Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Jazz
• Master’s Degree in Jazz

Juilliard Jazz Studies Rankings

The jazz major at Juilliard is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Jazz Studies. 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.

Jazz Student Demographics at Juilliard

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the jazz majors at The Juilliard School.

Juilliard Jazz Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 71% of jazz bachelor's degrees went to men and 29% went to women. The typical jazz bachelor's degree program is made up of only 18% women. So female students are more repesented at Juilliard since its program graduates 11% more women than average.

About 57% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in jazz at Juilliard are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% more racial-ethnic minorities in its jazz bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from The Juilliard School with a bachelor's in jazz.

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

Juilliard Jazz Studies Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 79% of jazz master's degrees went to men and 21% went to women.

In the jazz master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 36% of degree recipients. That is 3% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from The Juilliard School with a master's in jazz.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	6
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Related Majors

• Conducting
• Percussion Instruments
• Woodwind Instruments
• Other Music
• Brass Instruments

Careers That Jazz Grads May Go Into

A degree in jazz can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for The Juilliard School.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	11,530	$99,870

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 Pmasck under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.