Music Schools
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Music Schools | United States
Pittsburgh, PA
The Art Institutes awards master's degrees, bachelor's degrees, associate’s degrees, and non-degree-program certificates. The Institute offers Audio Production Degrees for music/film students.
Berea, OH
The Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music is part of Baldwin-Wallace College which is located in Berea, Ohio. BW is a choice for students aspiring to train in careers in; orchestras; operas; theatres; and teaching, arts management and music therapy positions.
Muncie, IN
The Ball State University School of Music offers bachelor's and master's degrees and a doctoral degree in six distinct areas: Ensembles and Conducting, Music Performance, Music Education, Music History and Musicology, Music Composition, and Music Technology.
Bard College Conservatory of Music
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
The undergraduate program that every student in the conservatory is enrolled in, is a five year double degree program leading to both Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Arts degrees. This integrated five year program combines the benefits of an intensive world-class musical education with the advantages of a broad exposure to the liberal arts and sciences.
Nashville, TN
The Belmont University Master of Music Degree includes six majors: Church Music, Commercial Music, Composition, Music Education, Pedagogy, and Performance. Undergraduate programs include: Music Composition, Musical Theatre, Music Education, Music Theory, and Music Performance.
Boston, MA
Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. Known primarily as a school for jazz and popular music, it also offers college-level courses in a wide range of contemporary and historic styles, including hip hop, reggae, salsa, rock, heavy metal, and bluegrass, in addition to its traditional jazz courses. It offers degrees in composition, contemporary writing and production, film scoring, jazz composition, music business/management, music education, music production and engineering, electronic production and design, music therapy, performance, professional music, and songwriting.
Bienen School of Music | Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
The Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music, or Bienen School of Music, is an undergraduate and graduate institution devoted to musical performance and academics. One of the top conservatories in the United States, the Bienen School offers performance degrees in all orchestral instruments, keyboard, voice, music composition, jazz studies, and conducting, as well as academic degrees in musicology, music history, music education, music technology, and music theory and cognition.
Bob Cole Conservatory of Music | California State University
Long Beach, CA
Undergraduates completing courses of study at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music are awarded the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Music; graduate students stand to receive the Master of Arts or Master of Music. There are 12 courses of study are available to students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Boston, MA
The Boston Conservatory is an arts conservatory located in the Fenway-Kenmore region of Boston, Massachusetts. It has undergraduate and graduate programs in music, dance, theater, and music education. The Conservatory offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Music, and Master of Music degrees.
Boston University | College of Fine Arts
Boston, MA
The School of Music offers the Bachelor of Music (BM), the Master of Music (MM), and the Doctorate of Musical Arts (DMA). All students have the option of concentrating in fields such as performance, music theory and composition, musicology, music education, historical performance, and conducting.
Philadelphia, PA
The Boyer College is located Philadelphia, PA and is the music department of Temple University. The college offers a wide array of degree programs in music and dance including; Choral Conducting, Composition, Education, History, Instrumental Studies, Jazz Studies, Keyboard, Theory, Therapy, Voice and Opera.
Provo, UT
BYU also has a strong emphasis on jazz music with the premiere performing group Synthesis leading the way. BYU also has a choral program with over 500 members.BYU is considered by its leaders to be at heart a religious institution, wherein, ideally, religious and secular education are interwoven in a way that encourages the highest standards in both areas.
Carnegie Mellon School of Music
Pittsburgh, PA
The Carnegie Mellon School of Music in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a degree-granting institution founded as a one of five divisions of Carnegie Mellon University's College of Fine Arts. Carnegie Mellon School of Music offers majors in every orchestral instrument, piano, organ, guitar, bagpipes, voice and composition. The school also began offering a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Music and Technology, a tri-college curriculum that includes courses in the School of Computer Science and Carnegie Institute of Technology.
The Cleveland Institute of Music
Cleveland, OH
The Cleveland Institute of Music is an independent music conservatory located in the University Circle district of Cleveland, Ohio. CIM has a world-class faculty whose talents for teaching as well as for music shine through across all of our departments; Strings, Brass, Woodwinds, Percussion, Keyboard, Voice/Opera, Chamber Music, Conducting, Composition, Music Theory, and other specialised studies.
Los Angeles, CA
The Colburn School is a music, dance, and drama school located in downtown Los Angeles adjacent to the Museum of Contemporary Art and across the street from the Walt Disney Concert Hall. It consists of two parts – the School of Performing Arts which has open enrollment and serves children in the community through age 18, and the Conservatory of Music.
College Conservatory of Music | University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music is recognized both nationally and internationally as one of the leading conservatories of the performing arts and electronic media. The Conservatory specializes in eight areas; dance, electronic media, ensembles and conducting, keyboard studies, music education, opera/musical theatre/drama.arts administration, performance studies, and composition/musicology/theory.
Seattle, WA
Cornish College of the Arts is a fully accredited institution in the Denny Triangle and Capitol Hill neighborhoods of Seattle, Washington, USA that offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance, Theater, Performance Production, Design, and Fine Art, as well as the Bachelor of Music degree. Cornish is considered one of the top art schools in the country.
Potsdam, NY
The Crane School of Music is located in Potsdam, New York, and is one of three schools which make up the State University of New York (SUNY) at Potsdam. The school offers programs in; music education, music performance, music history, music composition, music theory, and music business.
Philadelphia, PA
The Curtis Institute of Music is a conservatory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that offers courses of study leading to a performance Diploma, Bachelor of Music, Master of Music in Opera, and Professional Studies Certificate in Opera. The institute has served as a training ground for orchestral players to fill the ranks of the Philadelphia Orchestra, much like the New England Conservatory serves as a training ground for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, although composers, organists, pianists and singers are offered courses of study as well.
Chicago, IL
DePaul University is a private institution of higher education and research in Chicago, Illinois. DePaul School of Music offers undergraduate degree programs in performance, composition, jazz studies, music education, performing arts management and sound recording technology. All prospective students must audition regardless of intended major.
Greenville, NC
While East Carolina has historical strengths in education, nursing, business, music, theater, and medicine, it offers over 100 Bachelor degree areas of study. Degree programs are offered at the undergraduate, master's, specialist, and doctoral levels.
Eastman School of Music | University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
The University grants undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and professional degrees through six schools and various interdisciplinary programs. The University is home to several noted schools and programs, including the prestigious Eastman School of Music, the oldest optics program in the United States, and top 20 programs in political science and economics.
Tallahassee, FL
The Florida State University is also home to nationally ranked programs in many academic areas, including the sciences, engineering, social policy, film, music, theater, dance, visual art, business, political science, psychology and social work, medicine, and law.
Coral Gables, FL
Located in Coral Gables, Florida, the school offers degrees in instrumental performance, vocal performance, music engineering, music education, music composition, and musical theatre. It also offers Studio Music and Jazz degrees for instrumentalists and vocalists.
Winter Park, FL
Full Sail University offers degrees in Animation, Film, Design, Education Media, Game, Business & Marketing, Music & Show Production, and Web Development. Music degrees offered are Bachelors in: Music Business, Recording Arts and an Associates Degree in Recording Engineering.
Fairfax, VA
The School of Music at George Mason University is pleased to currently offer: Bachelor of Music (Performance, Music Education, Jazz Studies, Composition), Bachelor of Arts in Music, Professional Development Certificate in Piano Pedagogy, Minor in Music, Minor in Jazz Studies, Minor in Music Technology,and a Minor in World Music.
Hartford, CT
The Hartford Conservatory is a 120-year old performing arts school in Hartford, Connecticut. It offers programs in music, dance, musical theater and recording arts to post-secondary students on a pre-professional level.
The Hartt School of Music | University of Hartford
West Hartford, CT
The Hartt School is the comprehensive performing arts conservatory of the University of Hartford. Hartt offers innovative degree programs in music, dance, and theatre. With dozens of performing organizations and more than 400 instrumental and vocal performances, recitals, plays, master classes, dance performances, and musical theatre productions a year, performance is central to Hartt's curriculum.
Cambridge, MA
As an academic department, the Music Department offers both an undergraduate and a graduate program. Undergraduates receive an A.B. with a concentration in music. Graduate students complete a Ph.D. program in historical musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, or composition.
International Academy of Design and Technology
Tampa, FL
This Academy offers a bachelors degree of Fine Arts in Audio Production. The Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program in Audio Production is designed to develop advanced techniques in recording, mixing and mastering. Principles of MIDI, synthesis and sound design for CD production, film and video production will be addressed.
Ithaca College School of Music
Ithaca, NY
The School of Music at Ithaca College is one of the five schools of the college. The School of Music has been accredited by the National Association of Schools of Musci and offers a range of musical degree programs from Bachelors to Masters, education to composition and performance.
Jacobs School of Music | Indiana University
Bloomington , IN
The Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, is an undergraduate and graduate institution for the study of music established in 1921. Until 2005, it was known as the Indiana University School of Music. It has more than 1,600 students, approximately half of whom are undergraduates, with the second largest enrollment of all music schools accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.
New York, NY
The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, is a performing arts conservatory. It is informally identified as simply "Juilliard," and trains about 800 undergraduate and graduate students in dance, drama, and music.
Washington D.C.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts center located on the Potomac River, adjacent to the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. The Center, which opened on September 8, 1971, produces and presents theater, dance, ballet, orchestral, chamber, jazz, popular, and folk music, in addition to multi-media performances for all ages.
Las Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Music Academy College of Music, often referred to as LA Music Academy or LAMA, is a contemporary music school notable for its distinctive 'Play with Pros' ensemble workshops, innovative curriculum, and acclaimed faculty of experienced professionals active in the film, television and recording industries.
Appleton, WI
Lawrence University is a top tier, private liberal arts college located in Appleton, Wisconsin. Courses offered are music theory, composition and arrangement, piano and vocalist labs, aural skills course and strings.
Cambridge, MA
The Longy School of Music is a conservatory located near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Longy School of Music is a degree-granting Conservatory that also offers Community Programs for children and adults.
New York, NY
The Manhattan School of Music is a music conservatory located in the Upper West Side of New York City. The school offers degrees on the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition.
Mason Gross School of the Arts
New Brunswick, NJ
Mason Gross School of the Arts is the arts conservatory at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Mason Gross offers the Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance, Theater Arts and Visual Arts, Bachelor of Music, Master of Fine Arts in Theater Arts and Visual Arts, Master of Education in Dance, Master of Music, Doctor of Musical Arts, Artist Diploma in Music, and MA and Ph.D. in composition, theory, and musicology.
McNally Smith College if Music
Saint Paul, MN
McNally Smith College of Music is a contemporary music college located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. McNally Smith offers a range of diplomas, associate’s degrees, and bachelor’s degrees in the areas of music business; performance in guitar, bass, drums, voice, keyboard, brass & woodwinds, and strings (violin, cello, viola, and double bass); live sound, production, and recording engineering; and composition and songwriting. In the fall of 2009 the school will open the "first nationally accredited diploma program for hip-hop".
East Lansing, MI
College of Music students can choose from a wide range of areas of study, including brass and percussion, composition, conducting, jazz studies, piano, music education, musicology/ethnomusicology, music theory, strings, vocal arts, and woodwinds. The college offers Undergraduate Degrees to Doctoral Degrees.
Hollywood, CA
Musicians Institute is a music college that prepares students for careers in the contemporary music industry with a variety of Bachelor Degree, Associate Degree and Certificate programs in fields including contemporary music performance on guitar, bass, drums, keyboard and vocals as well as audio engineering (including studio recording, post-production and live sound), independent artist development, guitar-making, music business, and film production.
Boston, MA
The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) in Boston, Massachusetts, is a prestigious music conservatory in the United States. At the collegiate level, NEC offers the Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Doctor of Musical Arts, as well as the Undergraduate Diploma, Graduate Diploma, and Artist Diploma. Also offered are 5-year joint double degree programs with Harvard University and Tufts University.
Mannes College | The New School for Music
New York, NY
The New School is a university in New York City, located mostly in Greenwich Village. Students are enrolled in graduate and undergraduate degree programs, organized into eight different schools, which teach a variety of disciplines, including the social sciences, liberal arts, humanities, architecture, fine arts, design, music, drama, finance, psychology and public policy.
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN
Founded in 1911 as an education college, the university is composed of seven colleges offering over 60 degree programs through 35 departments. The Music college offers 7 undergraduate degrees in music, and 8 graduate degree programs.
NYU Steinthardt School of Culture | New York University
New York, NY
The Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions serves as the music conservatory for New York University. The Steinthardt School of Culture is a major research and practice center in music technology, music business, music composition, film scoring, music performance practices, performing arts therapies, and the performing arts-in-education (music, dance, and drama).
Oberlin, OH
In addition to the Conservatory, Oberlin has myriad musical opportunities available for amateur musicians and students in the college. Oberlin Conservatory offers majors in performance, composition, music education, music theory, electronic and computer music, jazz studies, music history, and a double major in piano performance and vocal accompanying.
Columbus, OH
At OSU, students find a wide variety of music degrees available. The Bachelor of Music degree is offered in Performance, Theory, Composition, History, and Jazz Studies. The Bachelor of Music Education is also offered and students looking for a more flexible curriculum may opt for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music.
The Peabody Institute | John Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a renowned conservatory and preparatory school located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. The Peabody Children's chorus is for children ages 6–18. It is divided into three groups: Training Choir, Choristers, and Chamber Singers, grouped by age in ascending order.
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, formerly the California Conservatory of Music, is only school of its kind on the west coast, it offers degrees in orchestral instruments, chamber music, composition, and conducting. Currently the school offers undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate degrees as well as offering adult education and pre-college education.
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
As part of the 23-campus California State University system, the university offers over 100 areas of study from nine academic colleges including a Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts (BECA) Department.
San Jose, CA
San Jose State University offers over 130 different bachelor's and master's degree programs. Popular undergraduate majors at SJSU include business, engineering, visual and performing arts, nursing, psychology, justice studies, biology, kinesiology, journalism and computer science.
Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music | University of Texas
Austin, TX
The Sarah and Ernest Butler School of Music is located on the eastern side of The University of Texas at Austin. Areas of musical study are: Chamber Music / Collaborative Arts, Composition, Conducting and Ensembles, Jazz Studies/Music Industry, Music and Human Learning, Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Piano and Keyboard, Strings, Theory, Vocal Arts, Woodwind, Brass, and Percussion.
School of Music, Theatre & Dance | University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
Founded in 1880, the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance is one of the finest performing arts schools in the United States. Encompassing programs in dance, music, musical theatre, and theatre,the music school is consistently ranked among the top performing arts schools in the country when compared with performance-oriented conservatories or with prestigious academic departments of music.
School of Music | University of Illinois
Urbana, IL
The University of Illinois School of Music includes nearly 100 faculty, more than 800 students, and a staff of more than 30 professionals who are housed in five buildings on the Urbana Campus. The School provides hundreds of concerts on campus and off campus throughout the year.
Houston, TX
The Shepherd School of Music is a university school of music located on the campus of Rice University in Houston, Texas. Shepherd School is itself very selective, accepting overall about twelve percent of all applicants. From its inception in 1974, the Shepherd School has emphasized orchestral and chamber music as a central element in its performing curriculum.
Tucson, AZ
The College of Fine Arts consists of five schools. Programs include: Bachelor of Music: Composition; Jazz Studies; Music Education, Instrumental; Music, Master of Music: Composition; Conducting; Ethnomusicology; Music Education, Doctor of Musical Arts: Composition; Conducting; Performance, Doctor of Philosophy: Music Education; Music Theory.
Orlando, FL
UCF offers the following bachelors degrees for undergraduate music oriented students; Music BA, Jazz Studies, Music Composition, Music Performance, and Music Education.
Boulder, CO
The University of Colorado is divided into several colleges and schools. While the College of Arts and Sciences is by far the largest, the school of Music offers three undergraduate degrees: Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Music Education, or the Bachelor of Arts in Music. You may also elect to earn a certificate in Jazz Studies or Music Technology in conjunction with your degree.
Dearborn, MI
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a public research university located in the state of Michigan. Its north campus houses the College of Engineering, the School of Music, Theatre & Dance, and Art and Design, the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and an annex of the School of Information.
Minneapolis, MN
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. The university offers 4 college degree programs for undergraduates with a focus in music.
University of North Texas College of Music
Denton, TX
The University of North Texas College of Music is a comprehensive music school with the largest enrollment of any music institution accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music, and the oldest (and first) in the world offering a degree in jazz studies. Areas of study are: Brass, Choral Conducting, Early Music, Ethnomusicology, Jazz Studies, Keyboard Studies, Music Education, Music History, Music Theory, Opera Studies, Orchestral Conducting, Percussion, Strings, Vocal Studies, Wind Conducting, and Woodwinds.
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
The University is also home to a major polymer science research center, and one of the strongest fine arts programs in the southeastern United States. “Southern Miss” is also the only institution within Mississippi, and one of only a dozen universities in America, to hold accreditation in all four fine arts emphasis areas (art, dance, theatre and music).
Los Angeles, CA
The University of Southern California Thornton School of Music was founded in 1884, is located south of downtown Los Angeles, and is one of the premier music schools in the United States. The USC Thornton School of Music is noted for quality programs such as orchestral studies, opera, jazz, Film Scoring and Music industry. Rolling Stone magazine named the music school as one of the top-five in the country.
Macomb, IL
The School of Music is a full member of the National Association of Schools of Music and a member of the Association of Illinois Music Schools. It offers a Bachelor of Music degree in Performance, Music Education, Composition, Music Business, Jazz Studies, and Music Therapy, and a Master of Music degree in Performance, Instrumental and Choral Conducting, Music Composition, Music Education, Piano Pedagogy, Music History and Jazz Studies.
Kalamazoo, MI
The School of Music offers a Bachelor of Music with majors in Composition, Music Education (choral/general or instrumental emphasis), Music Therapy, and Music Performance (instrumental, jazz studies, keyboard or voice). A Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education/Music (admission to this major is currently suspended), and a Bachelor of Arts in Music.
Westminster College of the Arts
New Wilmington, PA
Westminster College is a liberal arts college located in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. The music degree programs offered are: Fine Arts (Art, Music, Theatre and Dance), Arts Administration, Music, Music Education, Music Theatre, Organ Performance, Piano, Sacred Music, Theory and Composition, and Voice Performance.
William Paterson University of New Jersey
Wayne Township, NJ
William Paterson University of New Jersey now offers more than 250 undergraduate and graduate academic programs which range from liberal arts and sciences to pre-professional and professional programs. There are currently 10 Music programs for undergraduates to persue.
Yale School of Music | Yale University
New Haven, CT
The Yale School of Music is one of the twelve Professional Schools at Yale University. The School offers three graduate degrees: Master of Music (MM), Master of Musical Arts (MMA), and Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA). The School offers a joint Bachelor of Arts - Master of Music program in conjunction with Yale College, a Certificate in Performance and an Artist Diploma.
