164 PhD programmes in Music in United States

The Music Education faculty at Boston University aim to prepare students to work effectively within contemporary music and education landscapes.

The Music - Music Education program at Louisiana State University is offered to students who show promise as outstanding researchers and master teachers of music.

The Music - Experimental Music and Digital Media program at Louisiana State University is designed to prepare students to be composers, performers or music researchers whose work explores music technology, digital media and experimentation in either professional or academic settings.

The Department of Music at University of California, Berkeley is one of the oldest and most prominent in the country, bringing together a renowned group of composers, scholars, and performers. 

The University of Arizona offers the Music - Music Education degree with emphases in Composition, Conducting, Ethnomusicology, Music Education, Music Theory, Musicology, and Performance (Instrumental, Harpsichord, Organ, Piano, Piano Accompanying, Piano Performance and Dance Accompanying, and Voice).  

At the Brown University, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in Music and Multimedia Composition.

As a Brass student at Texas Christian University, you’ll access a range of courses and opportunities that will equip you with the specific skills and guidance to grow as a musician.

Develop highly qualified skills in the art and science of conducting with opportunities to demonstrate your full capabilities leading both choral and instrumental ensembles. We offer a Music Conducting degree at University of South Carolina.

The PhD in Music at University of Hawaii at Manoa offers concentrations in four areas: composition, ethnomusicology, music education, and musicology. Students work closely with faculty advisors to define coursework in their specialties and in related areas of study, remove pre-program deficiencies, and prepare for the comprehensive exam and dissertation.

Focus your studies on brass. At Indiana University Bloomington we offer a doctoral degree in Euphonium. 

The Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University Bloomington offers training in a number of subfields of folklore, including oral narrative, song, material culture, ritual, festival, worldview, as well as ethnomusicology, the study of music as culture, with emphasis on area studies, theory, and presentation and preservation of music. 

Discover a new level of musical excellence. We offer a Conducting Woodwinds degree at the Indiana University Bloomington.

Discover a new level of musical excellence. We offer a Music Education degree at Indiana University Bloomington. 

The University of Maryland School of Music provides an exceptional professional musical education within the context of a college of arts and humanities and a major research university.

Discover a new level of musical excellence with the doctoral degree in Percussion at Indiana University Bloomington.

The D.M.A. Music program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln offers emphases in performance (applied instrument or chamber music), composition, jazz studies, and conducting.

The Wind Conducting program at Johns Hopkins University leading to the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) provides students with the highest level of professional training in the art of musical performance or the craft of musical composition. 

The Piano Accompanying and Chamber Music Program at University of Rochester is one of the oldest and most distinguished in the nation. 

The PhD in Music Education at Case Western Reserve University is for individuals who wish to teach at the college level or obtain positions of leadership in school music programs (P-12). 

The Music Education Ph.D. program at Pennsylvania State University offers advanced study in the processes of teaching and learning music from a research-based perspective.