63 Full-time PhD programmes in Musicology

At the Catholic University of America, the Doctor of Musical Arts — the Departments of Music's highest professional Composition degree — is designed for those students who have already demonstrated significant compositional achievement, and who show great professional promise. 

The Doctor of Philosophy in Musicology at University of Kansas is for students who desire advanced work in the field, including the desire to write a dissertation, a substantial research project that includes original research in the field.

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. If offers this doctoral degree in Ethnomusicology.