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Most Popular Schools for Jazz/Jazz Studies Major & Degree Program

A program that prepares individuals to study and master the performance and composition of Jazz. Includes instruction in the history of Jazz and related musical styles such as the Blues, Jazz composition and theory, improvisation, Jazz instrument and ensemble performance, and related topics.


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Rank School Name Students % of Total Total On-Campus Cost
1 The New School 61 2% $71,361
2 University of North Texas 52 1% $24,712
3 The New England Conservatory of Music 48 20% $67,650
4 CUNY Queens College 27 1% $28,907
5 University of Miami 26 1% $68,460
6 Manhattan School of Music 26 8% $68,685
7 Temple University 26 0% $33,004
8 Oberlin College 16 2% $74,636
9 SUNY at Purchase College 15 1% $26,982
10 Michigan State University 13 0% $28,862
11 Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico 12 19% $5,170
12 DePaul University 12 0% $57,678
13 University of Southern California 11 0% $74,825
14 University of Oregon 10 0% $27,366
15 University of North Florida 10 0% $21,384
16 California Institute of the Arts 10 3% $71,135
17 Western Michigan University 10 0% $26,009
18 The Juilliard School 10 3% $65,610
19 University of Arkansas at Monticello 9 1% $18,812
20 University of Central Oklahoma 9 0% $24,091
21 North Carolina Central University 8 1% $24,419
22 The University of the Arts 8 2% $67,741
23 University of Rochester 8 0% $72,721
24 The University of Texas at Austin 8 0% $26,506
25 University of Hartford 8 1% $56,599
26 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 8 0% $30,102
27 Rutgers University-Newark 5 0% $32,708
28 Shenandoah University 5 1% $47,000
29 Loyola University New Orleans 5 1% $56,564
30 Roosevelt University 4 0% $48,655
31 Capital University 4 1% $50,334
32 Northwestern University 4 0% $74,649
33 University of Illinois at Chicago 4 0% $30,866
34 University of North Carolina at Asheville 4 0% $20,189
35 Ohio State University-Main Campus 4 0% $27,367
36 University of Washington-Seattle Campus 4 0% $27,638
37 Jacksonville University 4 0% $54,868
38 University of Maryland-Baltimore County 3 0% $28,058
39 Elmhurst College 3 0% $51,199
40 University of Northern Iowa 2 0% $20,934
41 Ithaca College 2 0% $62,757
42 Marlboro College 2 4% $56,458
43 The University of Texas at San Antonio 2 0% $23,715
44 Central State University 2 1% $19,278
45 Minnesota State University Moorhead 1 0% $21,996
46 University of Southern Maine 1 0% $22,968
47 Webster University 1 0% $45,762
48 University of Missouri-Columbia 1 0% $26,766
49 University of Missouri-Kansas City 1 0% $24,116
50 Whitman College 1 0% $68,082
51 Vanguard University of Southern California 1 0% $48,800
52 Lincoln College 1 1% $35,580

This list indicates the number of students that completed the Jazz/Jazz Studies program at the schools above.
It is not necessarily an indicator of academic rigor or quality of education.
Note that some schools do not have enough data to be ranked, and these schools will not appear in our lists.