{"id":7133,"date":"2023-10-09T20:58:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T00:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\/?page_id=7133"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T13:41:53","slug":"admissions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\/graduate\/admissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Music Admissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Master of Arts in Music degree offers graduate students the option of studying Jazz, Music Education (Online), Music History and Literature, Music Performance, or Music Composition.<\/p>\n<h2>Admission Requirements<\/h2>\n<p>To be admitted to the School of Music, you must have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A bachelor\u2019s degree from an accredited institution or the equivalent.<\/li>\n<li>An undergraduate cumulative grade point average of at least 2.75 on a 4.0 scale, with no grade lower than a C in any music course.<\/li>\n<li>Perform an audition or submit a video audition (Jazz Studies, Performance) or submit additional application materials. (Composition, Education, Music History)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Application Process<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\/graduate\/application-form\/\">Apply to the School of Music<\/a> by the deadline for your intended term of study.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/admissions\/apply\/\">Apply to Marshall University<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Submit your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\/graduate\/assistant-application\/\">scholarship and\/or graduate assistantship application<\/a> if you want to be considered for an award.<\/li>\n<li>Prepare your audition (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\/graduate\/ma-jazz-studies\/\">Jazz Studies<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\/graduate\/ma-music-performance\/\">Music Performance<\/a>,) or submit your additional required application materials (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\/graduate\/ma-music-composition\/\">Composition<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\/graduate\/ma-music-education\/\">Music Education<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\/graduate\/ma-music-history-and-literature\/\">Music History &amp; Literature<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Schedule your Audition or submit your audition video.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Auditions<\/h2>\n<h3>2024-2025 Audition Dates<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>January 24, 2026<\/li>\n<li>February 19, 2026<\/li>\n<li>February 21, 2026<\/li>\n<li>March 7, 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>*You may request a special audition date if you cannot attend one of the scheduled audition days.<\/p>\n<h2>Application Deadlines<\/h2>\n<div class=\"large-table\"><table class=\" table  table-striped \">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"\">\n<th>Admission Term<\/th>\n<th>Due Date (U.S. students)<\/th>\n<th>Due Date (International Students)<\/th>\n<th>If Applying for a Scholarship or Graduate Assistantship<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr class=\"\">\n<td class=\"\">FALL<\/td>\n<td class=\"\">August 1<\/td>\n<td class=\"\">June 15<\/td>\n<td class=\"\">March 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"\">\n<td class=\"\">SPRING<\/td>\n<td class=\"\">December 1<\/td>\n<td class=\"\">October 15<\/td>\n<td class=\"\">October 1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Master of Arts in Music degree offers graduate students the option of studying Jazz, Music Education (Online), Music History and Literature, Music Performance, or Music Composition. Admission Requirements To be admitted to the School of Music, you must have: A bachelor\u2019s degree from an accredited institution or the equivalent. An undergraduate cumulative grade point<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":255,"featured_media":0,"parent":5135,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7133","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/255"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7133"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7581,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7133\/revisions\/7581"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}