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San Francisco Conservatory of Music was awarded 11 badges in the 2025 rankings. The highest ranked major at the school is music.
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SFCM was not ranked in College Factual's 2025 Best Overall Colleges report. This could be for a number of reasons, including lack of data.
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The acceptance rate at San Francisco Conservatory of Music is a competitive 42%, 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.
At SFCM, the student to faculty ratio is an excellent 3 to 1. That's much better than the national average of 15 to 1. This indicates that many classes will probably be small, and students will have ample opportunites to work closely with their professors and classmates.
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 San Francisco Conservatory of Music is 100%. This is higher than the national average of 47%.
The freshmen retention rate of 90% tells us that most first-year, full-time students like San Francisco Conservatory 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.
Students are considered to have graduated on time if they finish their studies within four years. At SFCM the on-time graduation rate of first-time, full-time students is 64%. That is great when compared to the national average of 33.3%
Find out more about the retention and graduation rates at San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, there were 243 full-time undergraduates at SFCM.
| $0-30 K | $30K-48K | $48-75 | $75-110K | $110K + |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $36,958 | $28,576 | $26,012 | $37,684 | $41,102 |
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 SFCM, 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 SFCM, approximately 45% of students took out student loans averaging $8,930 a year. That adds up to $35,720 over four years for those students.
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Contact details for SFCM are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 50 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA 94102-6011 |
| Phone: | 415-864-7326 |
| Website: | https://sfcm.edu/ |
| Facebook: | http://www.facebook.com/SFConservatoryofMusic |
| Twitter: | http://twitter.com/#!/SFConservMusic |
| Most Popular Majors | Bachelor’s Degrees | Average Salary of Graduates |
|---|---|---|
| Music | 134 | $26,916 |
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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