Ball State University

Program Information

Degree Offered

M.A. - major in music;M.M. - major in music education;, D.A. - emphases in music education

Format: Campus

Program Description:

The Master of Arts is designed for students who are interested in a broad coverage of the discipline of music at the graduate level. The Master of Music offers in-depth study for students highly gifted in music performance, composition, or research. Majors include music performance, conducting, woodwinds, piano chamber music/accompanying, music history and musicology, music education, music theory, and music composition. The Doctor of Arts degree is designed to prepare superior musicians for careers that may combine teaching, performance, and scholarship. The program integrates depth of preparation in one of the traditional disciplines of music with a required core, an area of secondary emphasis, several supervised college teaching experiences, and the dissertation. The successful graduate will be an effective and productive artist/scholar who is qualified to perform professionally or to teach a specific music discipline at the college or university level and to take on secondary teaching assignments characteristic of many faculty positions.

Tuition & Financial Aid

Financial Aid Offered: No

Classification: Doctoral/Research Universities - Intensive

Institution Sector: Public

Locale: Small City

Size & Settings: 20,000 and above