The mission of the Academy of Vocal Arts is to be the world's premier institution for training young artists as international opera soloists.

The Academy of the Vocal Arts is the only nationally accredited conservatory in the United States exclusively devoted to the training of young opera singers tuition-free. Artists from throughout the states and all over the world audition to study and perform in AVA's four-year Artist Diploma program.

1920 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

215-735-1685

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 5 full time, 20 adjunct

22 scholarships awarded

Scholarship details: $100,000 per Resident Artist

Vocal Arts/Opera

Adelphi University transforms the lives of all students by creating a distinctive environment of intellectual rigor, research, creativity and deep community engagement across four core areas of focus: arts and humanities, STEM and social sciences, the professions, and health and wellness.

Adelphi is known for its top-ranked academic programs, small classes, and personalized attention. Our students call their Adelphi experience transformative and call their community family—exactly what your college studies at all levels should be about.

Performing Arts Center Room 207
One South Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530

516-877-3050

Career Assistance

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 6 full time, 50 adjunct

Scholarship details: $20,000 to $40,000 to entering full-time first-year students with exceptional academic achievement and demonstrated talent

Brass • Composition (Performance) • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Business • Music Education • Music Therapy • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion

BS in Music
BS in Music Education
Minor in Digital Recording Arts and Music Technology

Up to 25% will be available as hybrid or online-only courses

The Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts fosters experimentation and innovation across an unrivaled diversity of styles. Students are empowered to expand their artistic boundaries and develop distinctive voices. Others' standards are our points of departure.

Students develop advanced skills in their area of specialization, while also having opportunities to work across musical disciplines. A CalArts musician may perform and compose for their peers, work on an installation, score a dance, learn to program, record a noise duo, and play in a salsa—potentially all in the same week. Opportunities abound to collaborate with artists from across the schools.

Musicians at CalArts are not boxed into one area of their musical practice; instead, students work with world-renowned faculty who challenge them to explore various musical styles, be open to experimentation, and collaborate with artists from all disciplines.

24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355

661-255-1050

Our team at the Patty Disney Center for Life and Work provides students and alumni 1:1 career advising, professional development workshops and networking events, information sessions, an entrepreneurial Incubator Program, an annual Career and Opportunity Festival, grant opportunities, and a robust internship program. We forge intentional career connections with creative leaders ranging from independent local and international artists and agencies, educational arts nonprofits, and multinational corporations.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 31 full time, 50 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Media studies (including audio and video production) • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • World Music Performance • Music Technology • Experimental Pop

To inspire and empower students to become creative leaders who transform society through music.
Values
-Engaging students with a broad range of musical thought, expression and experiences;
-Building upon rich traditional foundations;
-Advancing innovative musical practices;
-Fostering creative enterprise;
-Promoting all forms of creative contributions to the field of music;
-Cultivating socially embedded practices.

Located in the culturally rich Southwest desert in one of the country's most vibrant, expanding urban centers, the ASU School of Music, Dance and Theatre affords its students not only access to this diverse environment but also engagement in Phoenix's diverse, flourishing arts community.

50 E Gammage Parkway
Tempe, AZ 85287-0405

480-965-5069

Career Assistance

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 74 full time, 60 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Media studies (including audio and video production) • Music Business • Music Education • Musicology • Music Therapy • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Music Entrepreneurship • Music Theatre • Pedagogy • Interdisciplinary Digital Media

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

Minors and certificates for students who wish to pursue music, dance, and theatre but do not want a major in those fields

BROCHURE / CATALOGUE

Arizona State University School of Music, Dance and Theatre information

ONLINE COURSES

Online courses information

Up to 25% will be available as hybrid or online-only courses

SOCIAL LINKS

The Conservatory of Performing Arts at Baldwin Wallace is an artistic community within a liberal arts university, in which the lives of students of all ages are transformed in pursuit of personal and professional excellence through the humanizing discipline of music/theatre/dance study, creation, performance, and pedagogy.

Bold opportunities are at the center of Baldwin Wallace University's nationally acclaimed Conservatory of Performing Arts. Our All-Steinway Conservatory is top-ranked and provides students with extraordinary opportunities to perform, compose, conduct, teach, and excel in preparation for becoming citizen artists. Individual attention is central to our programs.

Baldwin Wallace University
275 Eastland Road
Berea, OH 44017

440-826-2368

Career Assistance

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 36 full time, 39 adjunct

Arts Leadership • Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Media studies (including audio and video production) • Music Business • Music Education • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Acting • Music Theatre • Music Theatre Direction

The mission of The Bard College Conservatory of Music is to provide the best possible preparation for a person dedicated to a life immersed in the creation and performance of music. The innovative curriculum of The Bard College Conservatory of Music is guided by the principle that musicians should be broadly educated in the liberal arts and sciences in order to achieve their greatest potential.

All Conservatory undergraduates pursue a five-year program leading to two degrees: the Bachelor of Music degree and the Bachelor of Arts degree in a field other than music. Bard Conservatory offers degrees in instrumental and vocal performance, composition, and traditional Chinese instruments.

30 Campus Road
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504

845-752-2409

Graduates from Bard are well-equipped for whichever path they choose to follow after graduating. We have students that have gone on to play with major orchestras in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and we have students that have gone on to found their own festivals and ensembles. Read more about Bard College alumni/ae.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 13 full time, 82 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Music Therapy • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion

Undergraduate Programs Graduate Vocal Arts (MM)
Graduate Instrumental Arts (MM)
Graduate Conducting (MM)
Advanced Performance Studies Program (graduate certificate)

Northwestern University is committed to excellent teaching, innovative research, and the personal and intellectual growth of its students in a diverse academic community. A Bienen School of Music education provides students with skills and values—superb musicianship, a mastery of communication, a sense of discipline, a commitment to excellence—that will prepare them for success wherever their interests may lead. A life devoted to music can follow many different paths as performers, scholars, teachers, arts administrators, and/or critics. We at Northwestern look forward to guiding the next generation of musicians on their journeys.

With its proximity to the cultural hub of Chicago, conservatory-level musical training, and engaging academic environment, Northwestern's Bienen School of Music provides students an educational atmosphere unlike any other. Undergraduates may pursue dual degrees, double majors, or an ad-hoc (self-designed) major.

Northwestern University
Bienen School of Music
Ryan Center for the Musical Arts
70 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208

847-491-3141

The Bienen School of Music offers many courses related to crafting and building a successful career in music, and our internationally renowned faculty are an invaluable resource in guiding and preparing students for work post-graduation. Northwestern's Career Advancement Office provides a wide array of career planning services including assistance with cover letter and resume writing, internship applications, and interview skills, as well as more specialized offerings such as panels and opportunities to network with Chicago arts professionals.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 54 full time, 71 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Education • Musicology • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Music Cognition • Music Theory

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

Davee Media Library

BROCHURE / CATALOGUE

Bienen School of Music information

SOCIAL LINKS

Biola University Conservatory of Music offers degrees in Performance, education, composition, worship, commercial music, and music therapy.

Students at Biola learn firsthand the rigors of musical composition and history, as well as the challenge of enhancing personal performance. They develop a sound Christian worldview taught by today's top thinkers and musicians while studying in the heart of Southern California—one of the world's leading music centers.

13800 Biola Avenue
La Mirada CA, 90639

562-903-4892

Conservatory faculty work closely with students on graduate school preparation and job placement. Worship majors are required to complete an internship at a local church. Music Education majors have required observation hours and a post-graduation semester-long student teaching assignment. Conservatory students also have the Biola Career Center as a resource.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 9 full time, 13 adjunct

Brass • Composition (Performance) • Music Education • Music Therapy • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Commercial Music • Musical Theatre • New Media • Theatre • Worship Arts

Additional plans under consideration

The Blair School of Music focuses on the personal and professional education of highly talented young musicians who demonstrate an exceptional capacity and motivation to shape our increasingly diverse and complex global century.

Our unique “Blair Experience” builds on the very foundation of methods, repertoires, and ensembles shared by the world's most competitive schools of music and conservatories but goes well beyond that, immersing students in the transformative spaces of a world-class research university committed to inclusive excellence with distinction in areas ranging from theology to science, arts to engineering, humanities to business, and education to law.

Experience world-class music training alongside a top 20 academic education at one of the few exclusively undergraduate music schools in the country.

2400 Blakemore Avenue
Nashville, TN 37212

615-343-8855

Career Assistance
Alumni

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 64 full time, 48 adjunct

Scholarship details: 87% of Blair students received scholarship assistance (includes need-based and merit-based scholarships—academic year 2024-25)

Brass • Composition (Performance) • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Education • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion

Boston University is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world. Boston University is committed to generating new knowledge to benefit society.

The Boston University School of Music is a community of academically and artistically extraordinary musicians within a major research university located in one of the great music capitals of America. We are committed to the highest artistic and professional standards in performance, composition, music education, and musicology.

855 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215

617-353-3341

Throughout the year, Boston University School of Music offers a series of career development workshops taught by alumni and professionals in their field.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 70 full time, 88 adjunct

Scholarship details: Boston University makes a commitment to graduate students at the College of Fine Arts by offering the equivalent of a 50% tuition reduction over the normal BU graduate student tuition rate.

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Music Education • Musicology • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

76% to 100% will be available as hybrid or online-only courses

To train outstanding young musicians and prepare them for professional careers, also to create future generations for the Israel Philharmonic. Many have achieved great success, including as members (including Music Director) of the Israel Philharmonic and other major orchestras, opera houses and distinguished solo or chamber music careers.

Considered one of the world’s elite schools, the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music combines an intimate, intensive and personalised study experience in a "family-like atmosphere" with frequent exposure to the Israel Philharmonic, its renowned guest artists, and teaching by internationally-respected faculty and staff, all in one of the world’s great cities.

A partnership between the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and Tel Aviv University, the BMSM has an intimate relationship with the IPO's musicians (many on faculty). Students benefit from master classes from the IPO's guest stars. Alumni span Itzhak Perlman, Menahem Pressler, and Lahav Shani. Also included: free tuition plus possible benefits for international students.

The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv 6997801

+972 3-640-9505

The Colton Internship Program, in association with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 60 full time, 20 adjunct

Brass • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Music Education • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • All Instruments

Located in one of our nation's most musical cities, the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin offers comprehensive undergraduate and graduate programs designed to prepare artists, thinkers, makers, and teachers ready and able to make profound contributions to the future of music.

2406 Robert Dedman Drive
Stop E3100
Austin, TX 78712-1555

512-471-7764

Fine Arts Career Services offers resources tailored to the College of Fine Arts undergraduate and graduate student body. The dedicated team of fine arts career advisors work extensively with students to prepare them for an increasingly competitive arts industry. Graduation isn't the end of a student's relationship with FACS. The office remains accessible to alumni of the college for life. Career advising and planning services are also available from the university's Center for Strategic Advising & Career Counseling.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 85 full time, 10 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Music Education • Musicology • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Chamber Music • Ethnomusicology • Literature and Pedagogy • Opera Coaching • Opera Directing

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

The California State University Northridge Music Department is committed to:

• Providing nationally recognized training in music leading to a wide variety of professional careers and entrepreneurship in performance, composition, teaching, therapy, and business.
• Inspiring the highest level of creative activity and scholarship in advancing an understanding of the musical arts and their importance in every society.
• Promoting the development of strong ethical behavior based on honesty, respect for all people and cultures, service to local community and strong advocacy for the arts.

• Billboard, Top Music Schools— Music Industry Studies, October 2024
• Hollywood Reporter, Top 20 Music Schools—Media Composition, November 2024
• The Wall Street Journal/College Pulse 2024, Best Colleges in the U.S.; transformative impact of a CSUN education
• CSUN, the No. 2 public university in California 2023

18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330

818-677-3181

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 20 full time, 75 adjunct

200 scholarships awarded

Scholarship details: $1,000

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Media studies (including audio and video production) • Music Business • Music Education • Music Therapy • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion

Undergraduate Programs / Graduate Programs

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

CSUN Youth Orchestras

HEALTH & SAFETY

Health & safety policies and procedures for this school

SOCIAL LINKS

The School of Music educates outstanding, intellectually gifted musicians through excellence in performance, creativity, scholarship and pedagogy. We inspire imagination and creativity in music and in the construction of musical knowledge in all its diverse forms. Through an understanding of both tradition and innovation, we enrich the community within and beyond Carnegie Mellon.

The School of Music combines the strengths of a conservatory with those of a global research university. Students are a part of a diverse fine arts community on campus and in the city of Pittsburgh.

5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

412-268-4118

Our distinguished alumni populate the ranks of the world's most prestigious orchestras, opera companies, and faculties including: the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Metropolitan Opera, Harvard University, Prague Philharmonia, Oberlin College & Conservatory, Boston Pops, BBC Orchestras, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and many more.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 35 full time, 51 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Media studies (including audio and video production) • Music Education • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Electronic Music • Music and Technology • Music Entrepreneurship

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

BXA Intercollege Degree Programs

Music and Technology, a joint program among three Carnegie Mellon schools

Electronic Music

BROCHURE / CATALOGUE

Carnegie Mellon University School of Music information

SOCIAL LINKS

Our students are taught at ten departments in Warsaw and at the UMFC branch in Białystok and they can choose between nine majors: Composition and Theory of Music, Conducting, Instrumental Studies, Vocal Studies, Artistic Education within the Art of Music, Church Music, Dance, Jazz and Stage Music, and Sound Engineering. The University offers first and second cycle studies as well as Doctoral School. Other forms of education at the UMFC are fee-based postgraduate studies and artistic training.

The Chopin University of Music is one of the oldest and largest music universities in Europe, constantly developing cooperation with the largest music centers in Poland and in the world.

Okólnik 2 Street
00-368 Warsaw

+48 22 278 92 80

Career Assistance

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 100 full time, 100 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Media studies (including audio and video production) • Music Education • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Accordion • World Music • Choral Studies & Rhythmics • Sound Engineering • Dance • Church Music

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

For students at Erasmus+ programme, European Union's program supporting education, training, youth, and sport

International music courses Chopin-Górecki

BROCHURE / CATALOGUE

Chopin University of Music information

HEALTH & SAFETY

Health & safety policies and procedures for this school

SOCIAL LINKS

The mission of the Cleveland Institute of Music is empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

CIM is an independent conservatory known for superior orchestral, chamber music, composition, piano, and voice programs at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Its world-renowned faculty—many of whom are members of The Cleveland Orchestra—are eminent performers and pedagogues who cultivate life-long mentoring relationships with their students.

11021 East Boulevard,
Cleveland, OH 44106

216-795-3107

CIM's education focuses on high-level performance artistry coupled with the practical and essential skills necessary for a seamless transition into a professional career. For much of its 100-plus year history, CIM's individual faculty members have engaged in career-focused coaching of students and alumni.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 30 full time, 150 adjunct

Brass • Collaborative Piano • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion • Eurhythmics (as an undergraduate double major only)

ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS (non-matriculating/prep)

Partnership with Case Western Reserve University

HEALTH & SAFETY

Health & safety policies and procedures for this school

SOCIAL LINKS

The Colburn School's mission is to provide the highest quality performing arts education at all levels of development in an optimal learning environment. Internationally recognized as a leader in the field of performing arts education, the Colburn School is guided by the philosophy that all who desire to study music and dance should have access to top-level training. Therefore, the School focuses on removing financial barriers to education and creating equal opportunity through robust scholarship, financial aid, and community engagement programs.

Students receive full-tuition scholarships, room, and board. The Colburn Orchestra emulates a professional orchestra experience with distinguished guest conductors and Music Director Yehuda Gilad. Students perform alongside faculty and guest artists as part of the Colburn Chamber Players. Career development and wellness programs support all areas of student well-being.

200 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA, 90012

213-621-4534

The Colburn School offers a range of resources to help students and alumni plan and build their professional careers. All Conservatory students take two essential classes: the Healthy Musician, which teaches maintenance for professional health and the prevention of performance injuries, and the Working Musician, which offers a number of short courses designed to help them manage their careers as musicians. Undergrad students also take Teaching Musician, which equips them with pedagogy training.

The Center for Innovation and Community Impact offers individual advising and planning to Conservatory students, which allows them to tailor their experience to their own needs and goals. Career development staff work with students one-on-one and find opportunities for them to further explore their interests. In addition, the center teaches students engagement skills, including creating programs to develop new audiences and become arts leaders.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 15 full time, 26 adjunct

Scholarship details: $81,300

Brass • Conducting • Piano • Strings • Winds & Percussion

Bachelor of Music in Performance; Undergraduate Performance Diploma; Undergraduate Performance Diploma with Conducting Emphasis

The primary mission of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College is to prepare students at both the undergraduate and master's level to contribute to the field of music locally, nationally and internationally through a rigorous, multi-faceted curriculum, including a balanced immersion in performance, theory, musicology, composition, and education. The School of Music offers 14 degree and certificate programs, from the traditional Bachelor of Arts in Music through the post-master's Classical Performance Diploma and the Master of Music in Jazz Studies, taught by a renowned and diverse faculty. Performance opportunities also exist for qualified non-majors. The school is located in New York City.

Queens College is a liberal arts college with excellent programs in many areas, and the School of Music is the jewel in the crown. Students at the Aaron Copland School of Music receive a world-class education within the cultural richness of New York City at an affordable rate of tuition.

Aaron Copland School of Music
Queens College, CUNY
Room 203
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Queens, NY 11367-1597

718-997-3800

ACSM has an excellent career placement record for music education graduates (99% placement rate). We also offer Business of Music and Music Career Development courses to provide critical industry knowledge to our students.

KEY STATISTICS (college level and above)

Music Faculty: 26 full time, 70 adjunct

50 scholarships awarded

Brass • Composition (Performance) • Conducting • Early Music • Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media • Media studies (including audio and video production) • Music Business • Music Education • Musicology • Music Therapy • Organ • Piano • Strings • Vocal Arts/Opera • Winds & Percussion

Undergraduate Programs: BM in Music, Music Education; BA in General Music; BM in Music Performance Graduate Programs: MM, Classical Performance; MA, Musicology; MA, Composition; MA, Music Theory; MS, Music Education; MM, Jazz Performance; MM, Jazz Composition

Up to 25% will be available as hybrid or online-only courses