Graduate Study in Music

Deadlines

March 1
All applicant materials, including audition, must be complete and submitted for Fall 2008 admission.

March 21
All candidates will be notified of acceptance, rejections, or waiting list status.

April 1
All application materials, including an audition, must be complete and submitted for admission to receive full consideration for the summer music education program, as well as for a summer assistantship. Other applications for admission will be accepted on a space available basis until June 15.

Late March/Early April

Assistantship award letters will be sent out.

April 15
All candidates who wish to enter an academic year graduate program must accept admission and have paid their deposit.

May 15

All candidates who wish to enter the summer music education program must accept admission and have paid their deposit. Entrance to the summer program after this date will be accepted on a space available basis.

 

Admissions Basics

In addition to fulfilling to general admission requirements of the Division of Graduate Studies, all applicants must have an undergraduate degree from an accredited institution with at least 36 credit hours in music. 

All applicants, except composers and conductors, must also perform an audition or submit a taped performance on their major instrument or voice.

Required Application Materials

1. Graduate Application and application fee and assistantship application.
2. All pertinent official transcripts from undergraduate school. Music Education applicants must hold at least a provisional certificate to teach, usually earned through an undergraduate degree in music education.
3. A performance audition on your major instrument or voice. (This is not required for applicants for the degree in composition).
4. Two letters of recommendation for entrance, two additional letters for the application for a graduate assistantship.
5. Music Education applicants must provide a 500-word scholarly writing sample on a contemporary issue in music education that demonstrates the applicant's ability to craft the English language using and/or citing scholarly sources.
6. Conducting applicants must submit an initial screening DVD of a performing group they have recently conducted.
7. Composition applicants must submit at least three sample scores, with recordings if they are available.

For comprehensive information about the admissions process, please refer to the Graduate Catalog and see the links to the left.