Longy School of Music of Bard College
Acceptance rate
84.4%
2024
Peer median 61.3%
Tuition per year
$55,275
$70,013 with room and board
Peer median $40,478
Undergraduates
10
Student-faculty ratio 4:1
Peer median 9 : 1
“Peers” are all 51 private art, music and design schools in the U.S. (by Carnegie Classification).
About
- Type
- Private nonprofit, 4-year
- Location
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Website
- longy.edu
- Undergraduates
- 10
- Student-faculty ratio
- 4 : 1
This collegeRanked colleges nearby
- Setting
- Midsize city
- Nearest major city
- Boston, about 6 mi
- Nearest international airport
- Boston Logan International Airport (BOS), about 6 mi
- Also known as
- Longy School of Music
- Academic calendar
- Semester
- Religious affiliation
- Not applicable
- President
- Karen Zorn (President)
- Phone
- 6178760956
- City
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Address
- 27 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Rankings & Admission
Peer median 61.3% · all 51 private art, music and design schools in the U.S.
Acceptance rate by gender, 2024
In 2020: men 74.2%, women 72.1%.
Test Scores
SAT/ACT not considered, even if submitted IPEDS (US Department of Education) has no recent SAT/ACT data for admitted students here. GPA, course rigor, essays and activities matter more.
How Hard Is It to Get In
about 8 in 10
109 applicants in 2024, 84.4% admitted
92 admitted 17 not admitted Yield 13.0%
Degrees & Majors
Graduates in 2025 (first major)
Popular graduate programs
- Music Teacher Education · Master's66 (18% international)
- Voice and Opera · Master's29 (48% international)
- Keyboard Instruments · Master's27 (81% international)
- Music Performance, General · Master's12 (67% international)
- Stringed Instruments · Master's12 (50% international)
- Music Theory and Composition · Master's5 (40% international)
All majors, graduates and earnings IPEDS · College Scorecard
*Depends on whether majors have graduates in 2025 or not, Yes / No
**Move mouse on can check deitaled graudates number, click for major detailed information
***Due to privacy policy, graduate salaries are not shown for some majors that has few gradautes
| Major | Graduate Salary | Master |
|---|---|---|
| Music Performance, General. | $34,224 | |
| Music Theory and Composition. | $34,224 | |
| Keyboard Instruments. | $34,224 | |
| Voice and Opera. | $34,224 | |
| Stringed Instruments. | $34,224 | |
| Brass Instruments. | $34,224 | |
| Woodwind Instruments. | $34,224 |
| Major | Graduate Salary | Master |
|---|---|---|
| Music Teacher Education. | - |
Students
317 students in 2025 · Undergraduate men to women 60:40 · Freshman retention 85.7%
- Continuing undergraduates 10
- Graduate students 307
Undergraduate race and ethnicity (10)
International Students
International share over the last 10 years · gray line: median of all 51 private art, music and design schools in the U.S.
7 in 2025 · 55.8% in 2016
166 in 2025 · 41.3% in 2016
Cost
2025 cost per year
$70,013
- Undergraduate tuition
- $55,275
- Room and board
- $14,738
- Graduate tuition
- $55,275
Peer median tuition + room and board $58,844 · all 51 private art, music and design schools in the U.S.
Tuition rose 52% from 2016 to 2025; room and board rose 45%.
Finances · fiscal year 2024
Revenue$7.9M
Expenses$7.8M
Average faculty salary · 2025 (9-month equivalent)
Dark gray ticks: median pay for the same rank at all 51 private art, music and design schools in the U.S.
Campus Life
Athletics and varsity athletes NCAA · EADA
No athlete data available for 2025.
No athlete data available for 2024.
No athlete data available for 2023.
Nearby & Safety
Ranked colleges nearby
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Harvard UniversityCambridge · 0.4 mi
U.S. News #3
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Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge · 2.0 mi
U.S. News #1
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Boston UniversityBoston · 2.1 mi
U.S. News #34
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Tufts UniversityMedford · 2.1 mi
U.S. News #31
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Northeastern UniversityBoston · 3.2 mi
U.S. News #42
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Boston CollegeChestnut Hill · 3.7 mi
U.S. News #31
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Wellesley CollegeWellesley · 11.1 mi
Liberal Arts #10
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College of the Holy CrossWorcester · 36.3 mi
Liberal Arts #22
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Brown UniversityProvidence · 40.8 mi
U.S. News #16
Peer median 1.3 · all 51 private art, music and design schools in the U.S.
Incidents, 2008–2010
From the Clery Act campus safety reports schools file, covering on-campus, non-campus and public property.
Notable Alumni
Notable alumni of Longy School of Music of Bard College include Elliott Carter (Modernist composer), Jean Papineau-Couture (Canadian composer and academic) and Dmitri Nabokov (Opera singer and translator, son of Vladimir Nabokov).
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Elliott Carter 1908–2012
Modernist composer
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Jean Papineau-Couture 1916–2000
Canadian composer and academic
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Dmitri Nabokov 1934–2012
Opera singer and translator, son of Vladimir Nabokov
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Anton Kuerti 1938–
Austrian-born Canadian pianist and composer
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Noël Lee 1924–2013
Classical pianist and composer
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Harold Shapero 1920–2013
Composer, pianist and music educator
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Jennifer Grout 1990–
Singer
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Daniel Pinkham 1923–2006
Composer, organist and harpsichordist
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John Lessard 1920–2003
Composer and music educator
More alumni (7, by field)
Science and academia
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Janice Lourie 1930–
Computer scientist; textile CAD/CAM pioneer
Arts and media
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Sergey Antonov 1983–
Cellist, Tchaikovsky Competition gold prize winner
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Susana Naidich 1932–2023
Argentine singer and voice teacher
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Schuyler Chapin 1923–2009
Metropolitan Opera general manager
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Eunice Alberts 1927–2012
Contralto, concert soloist and opera singer
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Claudio Spies 1925–2020
Chilean American composer
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Judith Davidoff 1927–2021
Viol player and cellist
From Wikidata “educated at” records (including people who attended without graduating), ordered by the number of Wikipedia language editions. Degrees and years follow Wikidata and are left out where it has none.
References and Data Sources
Data from IPEDS (U.S. Department of Education), U.S. News, THE, QS, ARWU and Clery Act campus safety reports. Data insights are written by the Forward Pathway data team from public data.