Music at The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga

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

UT Chattanooga is located in Chattanooga, Tennessee and approximately 11,728 students attend the school each year. Of the 2,139 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga in 2021, 14 of them were music majors.

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

UT Chattanooga Music Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Music

UT Chattanooga Music Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the music progam at UT Chattanooga 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 UT Chattanooga 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
Best Music Schools	109

Music Student Demographics at UT Chattanooga

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

UT Chattanooga Music Bachelor’s Program

Of the 14 music students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from UT Chattanooga, 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 UT Chattanooga since its program graduates 4% more women than average.

About 79% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in music at UT Chattanooga are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga with a bachelor's in music.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

UT Chattanooga 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
• Design & Applied 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 TN, the home state for The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga.

Occupation	Jobs in TN	Average Salary in TN
High School Teachers	20,190	$53,620
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	1,350	$56,040
Sound Engineering Technicians	360	$56,940

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.