264 PhD programmes in Music

Music Computing research The Open University UK is focused on empowering musicians, illuminating musical activities, and modelling music perception and cognition.

A PhD in Music Theatre at the University of Sussex invites you to work across media to challenge disciplinary boundaries.

The Creative Arts program offered by Western Sydney University aims to provide professional artists with recognition of both their practice and the contribution they make to professional and scholarly knowledge.

Graduate studies in Music Theory at the University of Washington prepare students for careers in academia and performance. 

The Music program from Columbia University incorporates three areas: historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and music theory. 

Graduate studies in Music (Wind Conducting) at the University of Washington prepare students for careers in academia and performance. 

The Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Rice University is designed for musicians who desire careers that combine performance or composition with an academic appointment.

Prepare for a career as a professional harpist. We offer a doctoral degree in Harp at the Indiana University Bloomington. 

The Musical Arts 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. 

Students in the combined degree Music and African American Studies program at Yale University will complete fourteen term courses 

The Historical Performance Instruments 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. 

Graduate studies in Music (Orchestral Conducting) at the University of Washington prepare students for careers in academia and performance; our programs also promote individual courses of study that allow musicians, scholars, and composers to aspire to excellence in performance, research, and creation. 

This Organ Performance degree at Florida State University is offered to candidates who have achieved distinction in public performance and who demonstrate ability to execute research and scholarly study.

Our Ph.D. Music Theory graduates at Florida State University have an extremely enviable placement record going back for many years.

Invest your time and follow your passion to create original Music research at the University of Nottingham. 

The Music programme at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn makes it possible to obtain a doctoral degree in the field of arts in the artistic discipline of musical arts in the field of conducting.

Graduate studies in Music History at the University of Washington prepare students for careers in academia and performance.

Music students are invited to join one of the thriving research groups at the University of Lincoln and participate in its Critical Encounters Research Series, alongside academic staff and peers.

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

The mission of Mead Witter School of Music at University of Wisconsin Madison offers a DMA degree in Music - Performance.