LACs with Graduate Programs

<p>Anybody know of any LACs or LAC-type schools that offer advanced degrees? I know Wesleyan and Brandeis have such a program.</p>

<p>What discipline? Oberlin has a few MM programs.</p>

<p>Composition or related disciplines. Basically, for studying music not as performance, but academically.</p>

<p>Harvard has a Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.</p>

<p>“The Graduate Program of the Department of Music offers advanced training in historical musicology, ethnomusicology, theory, and composition, leading to the degree of PhD in Music.”</p>

<p>steph, don’t know if you’ve seen this thread <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/520907-best-grad-programs-music-history.html?highlight=northwestern[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/520907-best-grad-programs-music-history.html?highlight=northwestern&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Check with Cosmos, as she was looking into similar grad programs. Also, past threads by WindCloudUltra and MahlerSnob may prove useful.</p>

<p>Thanks guys!</p>

<p>One of the trickiest things when ‘gauging’ your best fit/best chance grad schools (that are not conservatories), is how much your ‘stats’ matter. Like, how much your undergrad GPA and GRE scores count, when you’re trying to apply to Masters programs. Obviously for undergrad, schools are very much into the ‘well-rounded’ mold of applicants, and much literature and statistics exist to help high school seniors who are trying to gauge their chances at specific schools. It’s a little tricky when you’re a college senior trying to get into a Masters program.</p>

<p>LAC’s are almost always undergraduate only; few have very large music departments even for their undergraduates. Mills College has a graduate program in composition (MA), and is an LAC-size, all women at the undergraduate level but coed grad - Milhaud was there years ago. On the whole, though, you would be looking at research universities. The top graduate schools for musicology (which generally is comprised of music history, composition, and ethnomusicology, and, east of the Rockies, music theory - for some reason none of the western colleges offer theory as a separate discipline) include UC Berkeley, Columbia, Princeton, U of Chicago, Penn, Cornell, Yale, Harvard, UCLA, Stanford, U Michigan; McGill in Montreal is also a strong program. There are a few relevant posts in the “graduate school” forum on the subject. The programs take around 7 years to finish a PhD, though composition is on a different trajectory.</p>

<p>Stephmin - You were looking into electroacoustic programs awhile ago. I think Mills would be exactly what you want. Have you been to Oakland and visited? It’s a vibrant exciting music program, for the right person. It’s small. Great part of the world. Interesting people. Amazing music scene in the Bay Area. And, I suspect that undergrad grades et al will not be as important for admittance as opposed to somewhere like Harvard.</p>

<p>Princeton has excellent graduate programs in composition and in musicology</p>

<p>if I’m not mistaken, Wesleyan only has advanced music degrees in ethnomusicology…</p>

<p>No, I’m pretty sure they offer composition.</p>

<p>Otherwise, it would be one giant waste of having Alvin Lucier on the faculty!</p>

<p>:-)</p>

<p>ah yes, my mistake. the MA is offered for both ethnomusicology and composition. it is the PhD that is solely ethnomusicology.</p>