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Visual & Performing Arts at Vassar College

Visual & Performing Arts at Vassar College

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

Vassar is located in Poughkeepsie, New York and has a total student population of 2,435.

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

Vassar Visual & Performing Arts Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Visual & Performing Arts

Vassar Visual & Performing Arts Rankings

The visual & performing arts major at Vassar is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Visual & Performing Arts. 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.

Visual & Performing Arts Student Demographics at Vassar

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the visual & performing arts majors at Vassar College.

Vassar Visual & Performing Arts Bachelor’s Program

61% Women
29% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 39% of visual & performing arts bachelor's degrees went to men and 61% went to women. The typical visual & performing arts bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at Vassar since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

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About 68% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in visual & performing arts at Vassar 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 Vassar College with a bachelor's in visual & performing arts.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 7
Black or African American 3
Hispanic or Latino 6
White 52
International Students 3
Other Races/Ethnicities 6

Concentrations Within Visual & Performing Arts

If you plan to be a visual & performing arts major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Vassar College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Film, Video & Photographic Arts 24
Drama & Theater Arts 20
Fine & Studio Arts 17
Music 3

Careers That Visual & Performing Arts Grads May Go Into

A degree in visual & performing arts 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 Vassar College.

Occupation Jobs in NY Average Salary in NY
High School Teachers 74,830 $85,300
Producers and Directors 26,110 $115,610
Graphic Designers 21,350 $64,840
Managers 16,600 $124,160
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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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