Music Schools in New York

The American Musical and Dramatic Academy - New York

Talented students from across the country and around the world choose AMDA because of its challenging, performance-based curriculum. They come to train with a premier faculty comprising accomplished actors, directors, choreographers, dancers and designers who inspire and work with students on an individual basis. AMDA offers BFA and certificate programs. The courses are performance based. The app...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Certificate in Musical Theatre (Certificate)

College of Westchester

Take Your Career Higher. The College of Westchester is a private college catering to those who want a college education that provides a fast start to job skills and careers....

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Certificate in Entertainment, Music and Sports Marketing (Certificate)

Sanford-Brown Institute - New York City

Sanford-Brown College and Sanford-Brown Institute are proud to offer innovative, career-focused programs to help motivated students advance in their personal and professional goals. Choose Sanford-Brown, and you'll experience quality academic programs designed to help busy adults like you gain the real-world skills and training needed to stand out in today's competitive job market....

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Certificate in Diagnostic Medical Ultrasound (Certificate)

Five Towns College

Five Towns College orchestrates a lifelong pursuit of learning that fosters a commitment to ethical, intellectual, and social values. Dedicated to excellence in learning, teaching, and scholarship, the College celebrates the worlds of music, media, business, teaching, the performing arts, and the entertainment industry. By integrating rigorous academic inquiry, research, and practical experience, ...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Certificate in Music Education (Certificate)
- Certificate in Jazz and Commercial Music (Certificate)
- Associate in Music Business with Music (Associate)
- Associate in Music Business with Business (Associate)
- Associate in Audio Recording with Music (Associate)
- Associate in Audio Recording with Business (Associate)

Queens College

Queens College is the place for you to engage the world of ideas, prepare for your career, and enjoy the many events and activities the campus has to offer. And with the recent opening of The Summit—the college's first residence hall—Queens College is now the place to call your home and enjoy all that comes with a residential college experience....

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Bachelor in Music (Bachelor)

Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Division of Graduate Studies

Brooklyn College is an innovative liberal arts institution with a history of academic excellence in both undergraduate and graduate studies. Since its founding in 1930, the College has offered men and women—many of them immigrants or the children of immigrants and often the first in their families to go to college—a high-quality, affordable education that allows them to build a richer life and a p...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music (Master)
- Certificate in Music (Certificate)

College of Saint Rose, School of Arts and Humanities

The College of Saint Rose, sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet Albany Province, is accredited fully by the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York, the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, the Educational Standards Board of the National Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Associ...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music Education (Master)

Hofstra University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Hofstra University can help you get where you want to go, with small classes, dedicated faculty and a beautiful, energized campus, plus all the opportunities of New York City within easy reach....

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music Education (K-12) (Master)

Hunter College, City University of New York

Hunter College, located in the heart of bustling Manhattan, is the largest college in the City University of New York (CUNY) system. Founded in 1870, Hunter is also one of the oldest public colleges in the country. Currently, 21,000 students attend the College, pursuing both undergraduate and graduate degrees in more than 170 different programs of study. With the myriad opportunities found in New ...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music (Master)

Ithaca College, Division of Graduate and Professional Studies

Ithaca College, founded in 1892, is a private, coeducational college offering undergraduate and graduate programs in business, communications, health sciences and human performance, humanities and sciences, music, and interdisciplinary studies....

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music Education (Master)
- Master in Music (Master)

Nazareth College, School of Education

Founded in 1924, Nazareth College is an independent, co-educational institution with a liberal arts and sciences core. For more than 80 years the College has been preparing students to become successful, ethical professionals who are involved in their communities....

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music Education (Master)

Purchase College, State University of New York

Founded by Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1967 as the cultural gem of the State University of New York system, Purchase College today enjoys a world-class reputation for its arts programs and high rankings for its liberal arts and sciences programs. The College attracts students and faculty from around the world seeking a place where they can develop their talents, expand their minds, and prepare ...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music (Master)

Queens College, City University of New York, Aaron Copland School of Music

The Aaron Copland School of Music offers a liberal arts music major and a major in performance, an additional sequence in music education, and a cultural music major; music minors in music literature or theory; and a concentration in composition. The curriculum is planned to develop the interdependent skills of performing, listening to, and understanding music, and thus to provide the thorough tra...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music Education (Master)
- Master in Music (Master)

State University of New York, College at Potsdam, Crane School of Music

The State University of New York at Potsdam prepares students to act as engaged global citizens and to lead lives enriched by critical thought, creativity, and discovery. As an inclusive scholarly community rooted in our historic role in providing exemplary teacher and music education and our leadership in the fine and performing arts, we are committed to the liberal arts and sciences as an academ...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music Education (Master)

Teachers College, Columbia University

Teachers College, Columbia University is an institution with a rich and distinguished record in the field of education. Decade after decade, since its founding in 1887, the College has anticipated concerns and acted with initiatives to advance educational reforms and issues. With its tradition of innovation and insights, the College is one of the leading schools of education in the country, if n...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music and Music Education (Master)
- Doctor in Music and Music Education (Doctor)

University of Rochester, Eastman School of Music

The University of Rochester, founded in 1850, is one of the nation's leading private universities. With just over 4,500 undergraduates, Rochester is one of the smallest and most collegiate in character among the top research universities....

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music Education (Master)

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, College of Arts & Sciences

A comprehensive, research-intensive public university dedicated to academic excellence and engagement with the regional, national, and international communities we serve....

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music Performance, Musicology, Music Theory, Composition, Music Librarianship (Master)
- Master in Music Composition (Master)
- Doctor in Music Performance, Musicology, Music Theory, Composition, Music Librarianship (Doctor)
- Doctor in Music Composition (Doctor)

Syracuse University, College of Visual and Performing Arts

Welcome to Syracuse University, a diverse institution of higher education dedicated to faculty excellence and scholarly distinction, attracting and supporting enterprising students and a close interaction and engagement with the world—locally, nationally and globally....

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music (Master)

Cornell University

Today's Cornell reflects this heritage of egalitarian excellence. It is home to the nation's first colleges devoted to hotel administration, industrial and labor relations, and veterinary medicine. Both a private university and the land-grant institution of New York State, Cornell University is the most educationally diverse member of the Ivy League. ...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music (Master)
- Doctor in Music (Doctor)

New York University, Graduate School of Arts and Science

Some 175 years ago, Albert Gallatin, the distinguished statesman who served as secretary of the treasury under President Thomas Jefferson, declared his intention to establish "in this immense and fast-growing city...a system of rational and practical education fitting for all and graciously opened to all." Founded in 1831, New York University is now one of the largest private universities in the U...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music (Master)
- Doctor in Music (Doctor)
- Certificate in Music (Certificate)

University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Graduate School of Education

A comprehensive, research-intensive public university dedicated to academic excellence and engagement with the regional, national, and international communities we serve....

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music Education (Master)
- Certificate in Music Education (Certificate)

Binghamton University, Harpur College of Arts and Sciences

Binghamton University is one of four university centers within the State University of New York - and, as The Fiske Guide to Colleges points out "Binghamton has become the premier public university in the northeast because of its outstanding academic programs. . . and its commitment to undergraduates."...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music (Master)

Lehman College, City University Of New York

Lehman College serves the Bronx and surrounding region as an intellectual, economic, and cultural center. Lehman College provides undergraduate and graduate studies in the liberal arts and sciences and professional education within a dynamic research environment, while embracing diversity and actively engaging students in their academic, personal, and professional development....

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music (Master)

Manhattan School of Music

Set in one of the world's greatest cities, Manhattan School of Music has contributed to the vibrant culture of New York City for over 85 years. It is one of the premier private music conservatories in the nation, with nearly 275 faculty members dedicated to shaping over 800 students from 40 countries into world-class musicians. ...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music (Master)
- Doctor in Music (Doctor)

The New School, Mannes College The New School for Music

The New School is a legendary, progressive university comprising eight schools bound by a common, unusual intent: to prepare and inspire its 9,400 undergraduate and graduate students to bring actual, positive change to the world. From its Greenwich Village campus, The New School launches economists and actors, fashion designers and urban planners, dancers and anthropologists, orchestra conductors,...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music (Master)
- Certificate in Music (Certificate)

Syracuse University, School of Education

Welcome to Syracuse University, a diverse institution of higher education dedicated to faculty excellence and scholarly distinction, attracting and supporting enterprising students and a close interaction and engagement with the world—locally, nationally and globally....

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music Education (Master)

State University of New York at Fredonia, School of Music

SUNY Fredonia aspires to be a comprehensive, selective, diverse, residential institution that is above all a community of learners. It aims to provide a challenging, safe, and supportive educational environment in which every participant has the flexibility to develop his or her best talents, attaining the highest standards of excellence in liberal arts and in one or more chosen fields. At the cen...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music Theory - Composition (Master)
- Master in Music Performance (Master)
- Master in Music Education (Master)

Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion, School of Sacred Music

Welcome! Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is the intellectual, academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. Our faculty, students, administration, and family of friends and supporters represent our fervent hope for the Jewish future, our commitment to the present, and our continuity with all the generations of the past. It is that shared v...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Sacred Music (Master)

Long Island University, School of Visual and Performing Arts

Long Island University was chartered by the New York State Education Department in 1926 in Brooklyn, NY, as a nonsectarian, coeducational, privately supported university established to provide “effective and moderately priced education” to people from “all walks of life.” From its beginning, admission to the University has been based solely on merit and promise. Large numbers of immigrants and chi...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music - Music Education (Master)

New York University, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Some 175 years ago, Albert Gallatin, the distinguished statesman who served as secretary of the treasury under President Thomas Jefferson, declared his intention to establish "in this immense and fast-growing city...a system of rational and practical education fitting for all and graciously opened to all." Founded in 1831, New York University is now one of the largest private universities in the U...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music Therapy (Master)
- Master in Music Technology (Master)
- Master in Music Performance, Theory, and Composition (Master)
- Master in Music Education (Master)
- Master in Music Business (Master)
- Master in Music - Performing Arts (Master)
- Master in Arts Administration (Visual or Performing) - Music Business (Master)
- Doctor in Music Performance, Theory, and Composition (Doctor)
- Doctor in Music Education (Doctor)
- Doctor in Music - Performing Arts (Doctor)
- Certificate in Music Education (Certificate)
- Certificate in Music - Performing Arts (Certificate)

Stony Brook University

Here you'll discover the advantages of a major university—more than 100 majors and minors, an active research environment, one of the best university teaching hospitals in the region—combined with the close connections of a small college. ...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music (Master)
- Doctor in Music (Doctor)

City University of New York, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The City University of New York is the nation's largest urban public university. Founded in New York City in 1847 as the Free Academy, CUNY comprises 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, the Graduate School and University Center, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, the CUNY School of Law, the CUNY School of Professional St...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music (Master)

State University of New York, College at Potsdam, The Crane School of Music

The State University of New York at Potsdam prepares students to act as engaged global citizens and to lead lives enriched by critical thought, creativity, and discovery. As an inclusive scholarly community rooted in our historic role in providing exemplary teacher and music education and our leadership in the fine and performing arts, we are committed to the liberal arts and sciences as an academ...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music (Master)

New York University, Tisch School of the Arts

Some 175 years ago, Albert Gallatin, the distinguished statesman who served as secretary of the treasury under President Thomas Jefferson, declared his intention to establish "in this immense and fast-growing city...a system of rational and practical education fitting for all and graciously opened to all." Founded in 1831, New York University is now one of the largest private universities in the U...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Musical Theatre Writing (Master)

Columbia University, School of the Arts

From its beginnings in a schoolhouse in lower Manhattan, Columbia University has grown to encompass two principal campuses: the historic, neoclassical campus in the Morningside Heights neighborhood and the modern Medical Center further uptown, in Washington Heights. Today, Columbia is one of the top academic and research institutions in the world, conducting pathbreaking research in medicine, scie...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Doctor in Music (Doctor)

City University of New York, Graduate School and University Center, The Graduate School

The City University of New York is the nation's largest urban public university. Founded in New York City in 1847 as the Free Academy, CUNY comprises 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, the Graduate School and University Center, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, the CUNY School of Law, the CUNY School of Professional St...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Doctor in Music (Doctor)

Queens College, City University Of New York

Queens College prepares students to become leaders of our global society by offering a rigorous education in the liberal arts and sciences under the guidance of a faculty dedicated to both teaching and research. Students graduate with the ability to think critically, address complex problems, explore various cultures, and use modern technologies and information resources. With a faculty and studen...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Certificate in Music (pre-K-12) (Certificate)

Juilliard School

Juilliard's central mission is to educate talented performing musicians, dancers and actors so that they may achieve the highest artistic standards, as well as become leaders in their professions. Through this process Juilliard will also help them to become thoughtful, confident and responsible adults....

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Piano (Master)
- Master in Collaborative Piano (Master)

New York University - Tisch School of the Arts

During the summer, New York University's Tisch School of the Arts offers rising juniors and seniors in high school the chance to experience intensive training in the performing and visual arts. Programs are available in New York City, Dublin, and Paris. Each program, exclusively designed for high school students, is worth 6 college credits and is an outgrowth of the professional training offered i...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Certificate in Musical Theatre Performance at Collaborative Arts Project (CAP 21) (Certificate)

Herkimer County Community College

Part of the State University of New York (SUNY), the largest comprehensive public university system in the nation, Herkimer County Community College (HCCC) is a two-year college offering associate degrees and one-year certificate, both on-campus and online. Many of our international graduates transfer to four-year public and private universities, while other find employment upon graduation. HCCC ...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Associate in Music Industry (Associate)

State University of New York, Plattsburgh

The State University of New York (SUNY) at Plattsburgh is a nationally accredited university founded in 1889. The university is located 100 km south of Montreal, Canada and 500 km from New York City. From your dorm room window, you can see the Adirondack Mountains of New York, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and Lake Champlain. Our students enjoy canoeing, hiking, and swimming in the summer and i...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Bachelor in Music (Bachelor)

Pace University

Located on the East Coast of the United States in New York State, the University offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate program at three of its campuses in an around New York City: New York City Campus - is located at One Pace Plaza, opposite City Hall in Lower Manhattan. Situated in the heart of the civic and financial center of the city, this campus is impressive not only for its fac...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Bachelor in Musical Theater (Bachelor)

State University of New York at Buffalo

A major public research university in the northeastern United States, the State University of New York at Buffalo (SUNY-Buffalo), or University at Buffalo (UB), offers an outstanding education at an affordable price. Founded in 1846, UB offers the broadest selection of undergraduate and graduate programs of any public university in New York and New England. UB has a total enrollment of 28,000, whi...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music Theory (Master)
- Master in Music History (Master)
- Master in Music Composition (Master)
- Master in Music - Music Performance (Master)
- Master in Education - Music Education (Master)
- Doctor in Music Composition (Doctor)
- Doctor in Music - Historical Musicology and Music Theory (Doctor)
- Bachelor in Music Theatre (Bachelor)
- Bachelor in Music - Music Performance (Bachelor)
- Bachelor in Music (Bachelor)
- Advanced Certificate in Music Education (Certificate)

State University of New York, Geneseo

Prestigious organizations rank SUNY Geneseo among the top public universities in the United States, and the very best value for international students. "The Harvard of the SUNY system" says the Princeton Review. "One of the country's most highly regarded public colleges," writes The New York Times. We invite qualified international students to come study with the best in New York State. Founded i...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Bachelor in Musical Theatre (Bachelor)
- Bachelor in Music (Bachelor)

State University of New York at Oneonta

Founded in 1889 in "honor and good faith," the College is located in beautiful upstate New York. The College has 5,900 undergraduate students, 200 master's students, and 100 international students representing 15 countries. Located in a semi-rural area with spectacular views of the Catskill Mountains and fresh air, the campus and community are safe, friendly, and culturally diverse, offering year ...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Bachelor in Music Industry (Bachelor)
- Bachelor in Music (Bachelor)

Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus

With its academic excellence and caring faculty, C.W. Post offers more than 200 bachelor's and master's degree programs, including computer science, business, photography and art. Our classes are small and you will receive personal attention from professors who are master teachers and researchers and scientists and artists. C.W. Post also offers Conditional Admission for qualified international st...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Master in Music Education (Birth to Grade 12) (Master)
- Master in Music (Master)
- Bachelor in Music Education (Birth to Grade 12) (Bachelor)
- Bachelor in Music (Bachelor)
- Bachelor in Education - Music Education (Birth to Grade 12) (Bachelor)

Genesee Community College

Genesee Community College is located in Batavia, NY amid the scenic greater Finger Lakes region, half way between the metropolitan areas of Rochester and Buffalo and just two hours from Toronto, Canada. With about 7,000 full-time and part-time students, Genesee is the college of choice for students across New York State, the nation and the globe. In a 2006 survey, Genesee Community College ranked ...

Offered Degrees and Courses:

- Certificate in Musical Theatre (Certificate)