Music Education at St Olaf College

Every music education school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the music teacher education program at St Olaf College stacks up to those at other schools.

St. Olaf is located in Northfield, Minnesota and approximately 2,953 students attend the school each year. Of the 24 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from St Olaf College in 2021, 15 of them were music education majors.

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

St. Olaf Music Education Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Music Teacher Education

St. Olaf Music Education Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the music teacher education progam at St. Olaf compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The music teacher education major at St. Olaf is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Music Education. 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 Education Schools	15
Best Music Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	15
Most Focused Music Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	38
Most Focused Music Education Schools	49
Most Popular Music Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	63
	64
	68
Most Popular Music Education Schools	95
Best Value Music Education Bachelor’s Degree Schools	231
Best Value Music Education Schools	264

Music Teacher Education Student Demographics at St. Olaf

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the music teacher education majors at St Olaf College.

St. Olaf Music Education Bachelor’s Program

Of the 15 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Music Education from St. Olaf in 2020-2021, 7% were men and 93% were women.

About 93% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in music teacher education at St. Olaf 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 St Olaf College with a bachelor's in music teacher education.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	14
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

St. Olaf also has a doctoral program available in music teacher education. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Social Studies Education

Careers That Music Teacher Education Grads May Go Into

A degree in music teacher education can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MN, the home state for St Olaf College.

Occupation	Jobs in MN	Average Salary in MN
High School Teachers	20,940	$64,610
Middle School Teachers	11,510	$61,410
Art, Drama, and Music Professors	2,030	$78,950
Education Professors	1,120	$74,010

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 Daniel Edwins a.k.a. Webmoof of English Wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.