169 PhD programmes in Music in United States

The Music Education program is offered by University of Memphis. Train to teach from the moment you step on campus. Our well-respected music education curriculum at Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music is based on musicianship, teaching and research and is taught by the finest faculty 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 Music Education.

Discover a new level of musical excellence. We offer a doctoral degree in Viola at Indiana University Bloomington.

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

The Doctor of Arts (DA) degree in Music at Ball State University is unique in the industry in that it combines a strong primary study area, a robust secondary emphasis that is more significant than most other programs, and an emphasis on integrating teaching, performance, and scholarship appropriate to your area of study.

Focus your studies on brass. We offer a phd degree in Brass Pedagogy at the Indiana University Bloomington. 

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

Study strings in a stellar environment. At Indiana University Bloomington, we offer our graduate students a phd degree in Cello.

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

Music at Cornell flourishes through an interdisciplinary approach that integrates the fields of performance, historical musicology, ethnomusicology, composition, and music theory. The Music D.M.A program is offered by Cornell University.

The Musical Arts - Performance degree from The University of Arizona has emphases in composition, conducting, and performance. In the performance emphasis concentrations are available in bassoon, cello, clarinet, double bass, euphonium, flute, guitar, horn, harp, harpsichord, oboe, organ, percussion, piano, saxophone, trombone, trumpet, tuba, viola, violin, and voice.  

The Doctor of Philosophy program at the University of Miami is offered in Music Education, as well as in Music Education with Music Therapy Emphasis.

Students in the Music - Music Theory and Cognition program at Northwestern University design a course of study incorporating their individual interests and a broad-based approach to contemporary music research. 

At the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, we offer a degree in Vocal Coaching and Accompanying.

The Frost School of Music at the University of Miami offers a Doctor of Philosophy degree program in Music Education - Music Therapy.

The Music - Music Theory program at Louisiana State University is intended to develop in students the knowledge, concepts, and techniques for research in music theory and to prepare students for teaching at the college/university level.

We offer a phd degree in Orchestral Instruments at the Catholic University of America. Acceptance as a graduate student by the Departments of Music is required. 

Prospective Doctor of Musical Arts students at University of Houston in all areas except Music Education must audition before a faculty committee. 

A unique aspect of the Music program at Northwestern University is a cognate area requirement in a non-music field such as psychology of learning, cognitive science, learning sciences, cultural studies, social sciences, humanities, philosophy, or communication studies. 

At the graduate level at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), specialized studies lead to Master of Arts (M.A.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degrees in composition; Master of Music (M.M.) and Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) degrees in all classical solo instruments, voice, and conducting; and the master of music degree in jazz performance.