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The New England Conservatory of Music was awarded 21 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is music.
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The New England Conservatory of Music was not ranked in College Factual's 2024 Best Overall Colleges report. This could be for a number of reasons, including lack of data.
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The acceptance rate at The New England Conservatory of Music is a competitive 43%, so make sure you take your application seriously when putting it together. Even leaving out a minor detail could be a reason to move you to the rejection pile.
The student to faculty ratio is often used to measure the number of teaching resources that a college or university offers its students. The national average for this metric is 15 to 1, but at The New England Conservatory of Music it is much better at 5 to 1. That's good news for students who want to interact more on a personal level with their teachers.
Another measure that is often used to estimate how much access students will have to their professors is how many faculty members are full-time. The idea here is that part-time faculty tend to spend less time on campus, so they may not be as available to students as full-timers.
The full-time faculty percentage at The New England Conservatory of Music is 28%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The New England Conservatory of Music has a freshmen retention rate of 91%. That's a good sign that full-time students like the school and their professors enough to want to stick around for another year. It's also a sign that the admissions team did a good job in choosing applicants who were a good fit for the school.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at The New England Conservatory of Music for first-time, full-time students is 67%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at The New England Conservatory of Music.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 404 undergraduates at The New England Conservatory of Music with 374 being full-time and 30 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $38,317 | $43,965 | $37,806 | $47,360 | $50,890 |
The net price is calculated by adding tuition, room, board and other costs and subtracting financial aid.Note that the net price is typically less than the published for a school. For more information on the sticker price of The New England Conservatory of Music, see our tuition and fees and room and board pages.
It's not uncommon for college students to take out loans to pay for school. In fact, almost 66% of students nationwide depend at least partially on loans. At The New England Conservatory of Music, approximately 37% of students took out student loans averaging $5,014 a year. That adds up to $20,056 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at The New England Conservatory of Music is 1.6%. This is significantly lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, which is a good sign that you'll be able to pay back your student loans.
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See which majors at The New England Conservatory of Music make the most money.
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Contact details for The New England Conservatory of Music are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 290 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115-5018 |
| Phone: | 617-585-1100 |
| Website: | https://necmusic.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/necmusic |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/#!/necmusic |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Music | 95 | $10,847 |
Online learning is becoming popular at even the oldest colleges and universities in the United States. Not only are online classes great for returning adults with busy schedules, they are also frequented by a growing number of traditional students.
In 2020-2021, 87 students took at least one online class at The New England Conservatory of Music. This is a decrease from the 593 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 87 | 0 |
| 2019-2020 | 593 | 300 |
| 2018-2019 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017-2018 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016-2017 | 0 | 0 |
Learn more about online learning at The New England Conservatory of Music.
Footnotes
*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.
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