2024 Best Colleges for Keyboard Instruments
There are about 1,188 students enrolled in Keyboard Instruments in the USA.
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popularity
Not Very Popular
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Diplomas received last year
628
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-96%
popularity Rank
#324
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Somewhat Expensive
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Median degree cost
$34K
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39%
cost Rank
#87
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Average
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Average Salary Two Years Out of School
$44K
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10%
salary Rank
#150
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Average
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Professor Rating
C+
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5%
professors Rank
#186
students
Above Average
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Diversity Rating
B-
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7%
students Rank
#109
SUMMARY
Going to school for Keyboard Instruments is not only a valuable choice, but usually an obligatory first step for undergraduates desiring to pursue a career as a jazz musician, a concert pianist, or a beat maker. Interestingly, keyboard instruments is an uncommon degree ranking as the 357th most popular major. Last academic year alone, there were 152 keyboard instruments degrees conferred. In-state tuition for keyboard instruments at private institutions is, on average, 3.6 times more pricey than their public counterparts.
With just 80 institutions having programs for this degree you could have a smaller selection of institutions which will have a degree program for you. If you're looking to immerse yourself with other keyboard instruments undergraduates, consider institutions in New York which have the most undergrads admitted to keyboard instruments annually. Zooming out, the top region to pursue keyboard instruments is in the Mid East region with The New School, The Juilliard School, and Manhattan School of Music best representing the region. Interestingly, our selection of the best conference to study keyboard instruments is the West Coast Conference with Brigham Young University-Provo representing the conference. That being said, our belief is that the best school for keyboard instruments is Texas Christian University, and here you can find our comprehensive list for the best colleges.
The overall best school does not mean it is the best school for you. There might be many more factors to weigh when choosing school. External stuff like campus amenities, transportation services, and food might affect your decision of which college to attend. Here at authority.org, we have examined the pros and cons for you. If, as an example, you want to know which keyboard instruments college boasts the best campus, the answer is Texas Christian University. If, for example, you are very interested in which college boasts the finest campus, then we have an entire list dedicated to that. We have carefully pored through student reviews, government databases, professor reviews, and more in order to compare every major in an unbiased and informative way. You can find our comprehensive list for the schools with the best student life here and from that list, our choice for the school with the best student life for keyboard instruments is Texas Christian University. Curious why? Continue scrolling to find out more about Authority's top recommendations. Some of our picks will probably surprise you.
If expense is a major factor in your choice of where you attend school, you might be cautious about The New England Conservatory of Music. The New England Conservatory of Music appears to be the most expensive college for keyboard instruments, at least regarding out of state enrollment. We do have an entire page for the most expensive schools that might put the cost of The New England Conservatory of Music into perspective. Additionally, you could be interested to know that keyboard instruments is the 59th most expensive program in the United States, with an average associated cost of $47,400. To zoom out a little, the most costly state for keyboard instruments in the country is Massachusetts with tuition and fees at the primary college, The New England Conservatory of Music, of $49,580. Even more broadly, the most expensive region of the U.S. for keyboard instruments is unfortunately unavailable due to missing data.
Our cheapest region for keyboard instruments is the Rocky Mountains region which is represented by Brigham Young University-Provo with a cost of $5,790. In better news, the most affordable university for keyboard instruments is Brigham Young University-Provo. Our full list of the most affordable universities can be explored here.
In-state learners can anticipate paying around $11,700 for a degree in keyboard instruments. The price inflates substantially to a median of $27,000 for the out-of-state public-school undergraduate. As such, you might be interested in our pick for the school with the best value for keyboard instruments: Texas Christian University. Here you will find our comprehensive list on the colleges we see as being the best value overall. Bear in mind, this discussion is predicated on being an out-of-state student. The value proposition changes when in-state tuition costs are considered, but we do not know where you live (and are not trying to collect that kind of data).
Earnings for keyboard instruments students differ widely, but within two-years of finishing the degree students will typically make around $54,100. While there is much variation in salary; highest paid earners can bring in up to $105,300. Right out of college, the lowest earning opportunities within the keyboard instruments field make $28,100, which is an alright wage. The highest earning grads from keyboard instruments have come from Texas Christian University and if you are looking for universities with all of the highest earning graduates, we have that too.
The overall diversity of keyboard instruments sits in the bottom, arriving within only the 19th percentile of all majors. The school with the most composite diversity for keyboard instruments is The Juilliard School and here you can find our comprehensive list for the colleges which have the most diversity. The financial diversity of the Keyboard Instruments major only is in the 2nd percentile compared to all other majors. Racial diversity is greater than financial diversity, ranking in the 18th percentile. Students who are not white, black, latino, or asian compose the largest proportion, 75%, of scholars majoring in keyboard instruments. Additionally, 64% of undergraduates pursuing a keyboard instruments major are women.
We have insufficient professors data for keyboard instruments to make the conclusions we normally would have made in this sentence. If we consider information other than simply rankings it becomes clear that the university with comprehensively the best instructors for keyboard instruments is Texas Christian University. You can find more detail on our ever evolving ranking methodology of the best overall professors here, as well as some of the finest professors nationwide.
Finally, the hardest school to get into for keyboard instruments is The Juilliard School. While we are unsure why you would be interested, we have a comprehensive page of the hardest colleges to get into. That being said, we hope you believe that considering higher education with context primarily informed by superlatives could cause problems. We encourage you to read our more nuanced pages on different schools and peruse some of our insightful background pages on important things to think about as your school search continues.
Top 25 Best Colleges for Keyboard Instruments
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#3 2024 Best Colleges for Keyboard Instruments
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN | www.vanderbilt.edu/
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#4 2024 Best Colleges for Keyboard Instruments
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL | www.northwestern.edu/
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#5 2024 Best Colleges for Keyboard Instruments
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI | https://umich.edu/
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#6 2024 Best Colleges for Keyboard Instruments
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA | www.cmu.edu/
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University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA | www.usc.edu/
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University of Washington-Seattle Campus
Seattle, WA | www.washington.edu/
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#11 2024 Best Colleges for Keyboard Instruments
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY | https://www.rochester.edu/
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#12 2024 Best Colleges for Keyboard Instruments
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX | https://www.smu.edu/
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#13 2024 Best Colleges for Keyboard Instruments
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI | https://www.msu.edu/
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#14 2024 Best Colleges for Keyboard Instruments
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX | www.tcu.edu/
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#17 2024 Best Colleges for Keyboard Instruments
Indiana University-Bloomington
Bloomington, IN | www.indiana.edu/
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#18 2024 Best Colleges for Keyboard Instruments
University of Cincinnati-Main Campus
Cincinnati, OH | www.uc.edu/
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#20 2024 Best Colleges for Keyboard Instruments
Point Loma Nazarene University
San Diego, CA | www.pointloma.edu/
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#23 2024 Best Colleges for Keyboard Instruments
Chapman University
Orange, CA | https://www.chapman.edu/
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#24 2024 Best Colleges for Keyboard Instruments
College of the Ozarks
Point Lookout, MO | www.cofo.edu/
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#25 2024 Best Colleges for Keyboard Instruments
Lipscomb University
Nashville, TN | https://www.lipscomb.edu/