Facts and Stats
Definition: A Curtis alumnus or alumna has completed at least one academic year and left in good standing.
The Alumni Community
As of December 2011
Total number of alumni: 3,939
- Over the past five years, an average of forty-two students have graduated from Curtis annually.
Number of living alumni: 2,830
- Alumni reside in forty-six states (plus Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico) and forty-one countries.
Number of majors throughout Curtis’s history: 29
- Curtis currently offers only one master’s degree program—in Opera.
Number of commencement ceremonies: 78
- Curtis’s first graduation ceremony was May 22, 1934, ten years after the establishment of the school. All alumni were invited back to attend. In all, more than seventy participants were recognized, including thirty-four current graduating students and many who had previously earned their diplomas.
GRADUATION AND REteNTION RATEs
Data are for full-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduates
Graduation rates within 150% of normal time to program completion for 2009
| Overall | 92% |
| Male | 100% |
| Female | 83% |
| White, non-Hispanic | 88% |
| Non-resident alien | 100% |
Retention rate
| Fall 2009 | 92% |
Placement in employment
Alumni from the classes of 2006-2010 have been appointed to positions in the following ensembles:
- Czech Philharmonic
- Delaware Opera
- Delaware Symphony Orchestra
- Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, Germany
- Hartford Symphony
- Louisville Symphony
- Louisiana Philharmonic
- Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Minnesota Orchestra
- National Symphony Orchestra
- New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
- New York Philharmonic
- Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia Orchestra, Spain
- Philadelphia Orchestra
- New World Symphony
- Sarasota Orchestra
- Pittsburgh Symphony
Alumni from the classes of 2006-2010 have attended the following programs:
- Lindemann Young Artists Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera
- The Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Opera Center at the Lyric Opera of Chicago
- Houston Grand Opera young artists program
graduate and continuing enrollment of curtis graduates
Graduates from 2006-2010 have entered graduate programs at:
- Escuela de Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
- Hochschule für Musik Hannover
- Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
- Juilliard School
- New England Conservatory
- Peabody Institute of Music
- Rice University’s Sheperd School of Music
- Yale University
- University of Oregon
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music
Graduates from 2006-2010 have pursued bachelor’s degrees at:
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Harvard University
Contact
Anne O'Donnell, director of alumni and parent programs, (215) 717-3128