- The Inkwell
- Puerto Rico
- Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music
San Juan, PRCity: largeZIP 00907Founded 1959
- Sector
- Public
- Founded
- 1959
- Carnegie class
- Special focus: arts, music & design
- Highest degree
- Graduate degree
- Federal aid since
- 1972
- Website
- cmpr.edu
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Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music
Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music is a public college in San Juan, Puerto Rico, with 307 undergraduates. It admits 78% of applicants and costs $8,025 a year after aid.
—graduate
Admission rate78%
Retention88%
Pell Grant share55%
Federal loans9.5%
$8,025net price / year
78%admission rate
—average SAT
—graduate in 6 years
$30,994median earnings, 10 yrs
$9,250median debt
#1,665 of 1,704 for earnings#102 of 1,739 for lowest net price#817 of 1,552 for selectivity
what it costs
Cost and net price
Net price is the average annual cost after grants and scholarships for full-time students who receive federal aid; it varies with family income.
Published cost
- Cost of attendance
- $15,420tuition, fees, housing, books, per year
- Tuition & fees, in-state
- $3,370
- Tuition & fees, out-of-state
- $3,850
- Average net price
- $8,025national median $19,980
Net price by family income
$0–30,000$8,025
$30,001–48,000$8,025
$48,001–75,000$8,025
$75,001–110,000—
$110,001+—
getting in
Admissions and test scores
Admission
- Admission rate
- 78%national median 77%
- Average SAT
- —
- SAT reading, middle 50%
- —
- SAT math, middle 50%
- —
- ACT composite, middle 50%
- —
Against the national median
Admission rate · this college78%
Admission rate · U.S. median77%
Retention · this college88%
Retention · U.S. median76%
Pell share · this college55%
Pell share · U.S. median39%
after enrolling
Graduation, earnings and debt
Completion
- Graduation rate, 6 years
- —within 150% of normal time
- Graduation rate, 4 years
- —
- First-year retention
- 88%
- Award within 8 years, all students
- 72%
Earnings and debt
- Median earnings, 6 years after entry
- $14,152
- Median earnings, 10 years after entry
- $30,994middle 50%: $15,894–$49,758
- Median debt at graduation
- $9,250
- 3-year loan default rate
- 0%
Earnings ten years after entry
Upper quarter$49,758
Median, Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music$30,994
Lower quarter$15,894
U.S. median, all colleges$58,886
Former students working and not enrolled · College Scorecard
who studies here
Students and faculty
Undergraduates
- Degree-seeking undergraduates
- 307
- Part-time
- 39%
- Women / men
- 30% / 70%
- Average age at entry
- 20.4
- First-generation students
- 9.5%
- Pell Grant recipients
- 55%
Faculty and resources
- Student-to-faculty ratio
- 4 : 1
- Full-time faculty
- 50%
- Average faculty salary
- $5,014 / month
- Instructional spending per student
- $21,478
- Endowment, end of year
- $2,446,761
Race and ethnicity, undergraduates
Hispanic99%
U.S. nonresident1.0%
2 fields of study
Most popular fields
Share of bachelor’s degrees awarded, by broad field (CIP family).
Visual & performing arts90%
Education9.8%
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Same Carnegie class, similar price
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|---|---|---|---|
| Visible Music College Memphis, TN | $25,006 | 14% | — |
| Nossi College of Art and Design Nashville, TN | $24,518 | 40% | $36,368 |
| Five Towns College Dix Hills, NY | $21,094 | 53% | $46,311 |
| University of North Carolina School of the Arts Winston Salem, NC | $14,859 | 80% | $46,097 |
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Source: College Scorecard, U.S. Department of Education — institution file, most recent cohorts. UNITID 241766. Founding year, motto and memberships: Wikidata Q5163150.