by our College Data Analytics TeamCollege Factual analyzes over 2,000 colleges and universities in its annual rankings and ranks them in a variety of ways, including most diverse, best overall quality, best for non-traditional students, and much more.
VanderCook College of Music was awarded 35 badges in the 2024 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is education.
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VanderCook College 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.
With an acceptance rate of 100%, VanderCook College of Music has a fairly liberal admissions policy. However, don't just assume you'll get in! Put together a good application and make sure you include all requested documents and materials.
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 VanderCook College of Music it is much better at 4 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 VanderCook College of Music is 36%. This is lower than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 73% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like VanderCook College of Music enough to come back for another year. This is a fair bit higher than the national average of 68%. That's certainly something to check off in the good column about the school.
The on-time graduation rate for someone pursuing a bachelor's degree is typically four years. This rate at VanderCook College of Music for first-time, full-time students is 40%, which is better than the national average of 33.3%.
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at VanderCook College of Music.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 82 undergraduates at VanderCook College of Music with 62 being full-time and 20 being part-time.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $21,959 | $26,756 | $32,020 | $31,084 | $24,084 |
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 VanderCook College 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 VanderCook College of Music, approximately 55% of students took out student loans averaging $7,167 a year. That adds up to $28,668 over four years for those students.
The student loan default rate at VanderCook College of Music is 8.5%. Although this is lower than the national default rate of 10.1%, you'll still want to keep this in mind when taking out student loans.
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Contact details for VanderCook College of Music are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 3140 South Federal Street, Chicago, IL 60616-3731 |
| Phone: | 312-225-6288 |
| Website: | www.vandercook.edu/ |
| Facebook: | https://www.facebook.com/VanderCookCollege/ |
| Twitter: | http://www.twitter.com/vandercook |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Teacher Education Subject Specific | 10 | $39,759 |
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, 160 students took at least one online class at VanderCook College of Music. This is a decrease from the 222 students who took online classes the previous year.
| Year | Took at Least One Online Class | Took All Classes Online |
|---|---|---|
| 2020-2021 | 160 | 137 |
| 2019-2020 | 222 | 219 |
| 2018-2019 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017-2018 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016-2017 | 0 | 0 |
Learn more about online learning at VanderCook College 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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