Graduate Degrees Offered

The OSU School of Music provides the graduate degree programs listed below. You may download the Graduate Handbook here:

Graduate Handbook (336 KB)

The Graduate School Handbook can also be downloaded from the OSU Graduate School site.

Detailed curriculum requirements are found below:

Master of Music (M.M.)

• Brass Performance
• Composition
• Choral Conducting
• Instrumental Conducting
• Orchestral Conducting
• Percussion Performance
• Piano Performance
• String Performance
• Vocal Performance
• Woodwind Performance

Master of Arts (M.A.)

• Brass Pedagogy
• Piano Pedagogy
• String Pedagogy
• Vocal Pedagogy
• Woodwind Pedagogy
• Music Education
•           o Summers-Only Program
• Musicology
• Music Theory

Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.)

• Composition
• Conducting
• Performance
• Vocal

Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

• Music Education
• Music Education Special Admissions
• Musicology
• Music Theory

The School of Music offers interdisciplinary studies in music cognition and ethnomusicology. For program inquiries please contact mus-grad@osu.edu.