Graduate programs

Become a master of music

Have ambitious goals for your music career? Reach them. NAU’s School of Music is proud to offer a Master of Music (MM) for students to enhance and develop their artistic and intellectual skills, leading to fruitful careers as music educators, conductors, or performances. Emphases include:

• Choral conducting
• Composition
• Instrumental conducting
• Instrumental performance
• Musicology/ethnomusicology
• Music Theory
• Piano Accompanying and chamber music
• Suzuki Pedagogy (violin)
• Vocal performance

The path to your master’s

School of Music graduate students must have a bachelor’s degree in music, a 3.0 cumulative GPA, a TOEFL score of at least 80, and a major professor and/or area approval for the candidate’s subplan. All candidates must first apply to the NAU Graduate College. Learn more about the graduate admissions process.