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Fine & Performing ArtsDegree program✓ Listed officially

Music History

at McGill University · Montreal, Quebec · On the official programs page ↗

B-
Program score
Data transparencyPartial

How well this program's existence and the school's data are sourced. 60/100

Value scoreC+

Quality adjusted for the school's cost. 54/100 · see how McGill University compares

How this program ranks

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Among Canadian universities offering Fine & Performing Arts, Music History at McGill University ranks #62 of 146 on our program score: verified school-wide outcomes (40%), recognized strength in Fine & Performing Arts (25%), data transparency (20%) and value (15%). Here's exactly how its 69/100 was reached:

How we calculated this 69/100: the real numbers69/100

Verified school-wide outcomes 40% · recognized strength in Fine & Performing Arts 25% · data transparency 20% · value 15%.

  1. Verified school-wide outcomes
    89/100: McGill University's verified outcome score, inherited (no fabricated per-program number)
    × 40% → 35 pts
    35 pts
  2. Recognised strength in Fine & Performing Arts
    55/100: Fine & Performing Arts is offered but not a flagged strength (floors at 55)
    × 25% → 14 pts
    14 pts
  3. Program data transparency
    60/100: this program's transparency score (below)
    × 20% → 12 pts
    12 pts
  4. Value
    54/100: quality adjusted for McGill University's cost
    × 15% → 8 pts
    8 pts
Program score69/100

We don't yet publish verified program-LEVEL outcomes, so this program inherits its school's verified figures, labelled as such: never a per-program number we can't source.

Compared with other Fine & Performing Arts programs

Transparency

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The one program-level signal we can verify today is whether this program is listed on McGill University's official programs page. The rest is McGill University's own data transparency, inherited and labelled; we don't yet have verified per-program stats.

Program listed on the school's official programs pageThis program
Existence confirmed on coursecatalogue.mcgill.ca
source ↗1/1
Publishes student outcomesSchool-level
1 of 3 outcome metrics sourced
source ↗1/2
Keeps published data currentSchool-level
latest figure as of 2018
source ↗0/2
Sources its competitive entry averageSchool-level
publishes no admitted average. Our entering grade is an editorial estimate, not sourced
0/1
Backs facts with verified official linksSchool-level
2 verified source links
source ↗2/2
How we calculated this 60/100: the real numbers60/100

30% (listed on the school's official programs page) + 70% (the school's own data-transparency score).

  1. Program listed on an official pageThis program
    Yes: existence confirmed on the school's official programs page (1/1)
    × 30% → 30 pts
    30 pts

    Existence confirmed on coursecatalogue.mcgill.ca

    Sourceofficial source ↗
  2. McGill University's data-transparency scoreSchool-level
    43/100: the school's own rubric (shown on its profile)
    × 70% → 30 pts
    30 pts
Program transparency60/100

The one genuinely program-level signal we can verify today is whether the program is listed officially. The rest is the school's transparency, inherited and labelled.

Outcomes (school-wide)

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We don't yet publish program-level outcomes, so Music History inherits McGill University's verified school-wide figures. These are what feed its program score, never a per-program number we can't source.

Graduation rate
87%
How we calculated this 89/100: the real numbers89/100

Each verified outcome is scored 0-100 against the range its peers actually publish, then blended by weight and renormalised over the 1 of 3 metrics McGill University publishes.

  1. Graduation rate
    87%: graduation rate
    scaled within the 62.3-90% range across the 20 peers that publish it → 89/100, weighted 100%
    89 pts
    “Six-year graduation rate by cohort year … 2018 cohort: 87% (Total)”
    Extracted fromMcGill University Board of Governors, KPI Report GD24-50 (Winter 2025) ↗· as of 2018 cohort
Outcome score89/100

Scored on 1 of 3 outcome metrics: the rest aren't published with a verifiable source, so they're left out rather than estimated.

Program facts

Field
Fine & Performing Arts
Credential
Degree program
School
McGill University
Domestic tuition
$9,000/yr
Avg. entering grade
78-96%
Existence
coursecatalogue.mcgill.ca ↗

Per-program stats are honestly Unverified until a program-level figure is sourced. Data as of June 2026.

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