Program Information
The Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music is a national leader in the development of contemporary programs that respond to the needs of music professions. For example, it was the first to offer degrees in Music Industry and in Music Engineering Technology, and among the first to offer degrees in Studio Music and Jazz, Music Therapy, and Musical Theatre.

Master of Music degree programs are available in the following majors: Performance (instrumental, keyboard, and vocal), jazz performance (instrumental and vocal), conducting (instrumental and choral), accompanying and chamber music, music theory, composition, media writing and production, musicology, music education, music therapy, jazz pedagogy, studio jazz writing, keyboard performance and pedagogy, and music business and entertainment industries. A Master of Science degree program is offered in music engineering. Doctor of Musical Arts degree programs are available in performance (instrumental, keyboard, and vocal), jazz performance (instrumental and vocal), conducting (instrumental and choral), accompanying and chamber music, composition, jazz composition, and keyboard performance and pedagogy. A Doctor of Philosophy degree program is offered in music education. Other graduate programs include a Music Specialist degree in music education and an Artist Diploma program in performance (instrumental, keyboard, vocal, and jazz).

Master's programs in performance are designed as two-year programs that culminate in a recital and recital paper. Other two-year master's programs culminate with a project and project paper, internship, thesis, and/or comprehensive examination. D.M.A. performance degrees require at least three recitals and a doctoral essay. The Ph.D. program culminates with a comprehensive examination and a dissertation. The M.Spec. degree requires a practitioner-oriented project, and the Artist Diploma program requires two recitals.
The confluence of contemporary and traditional programs offers students a stimulating environment that resembles a microcosm of the music professions broadly. Couple this with a community of music students typically representing all fifty state and twenty-five countries, and the result is an energetic mixture that can be found in few schools.