Graduate Studies in Composition, others schools

After reading some very good threads on composition grad school (following after this topic: http://forum.youngco...re/page__st__20 ) I decided I would add a different prospective on DMA, PhD programs.

I will also try not to be loquacious.

A lot of people have visions of getting their DMA/Ph.D in composition typically between the alleged top schools (no order: Indiana, NW, Michigan, Eastman, Juilliard.)

I would like to say that there are plenty of other schools that offer lots of scholarship money for doctorate in composition. here is a list:

University of Utah

University of Washington

UCLA

Southern California

CalArts

Louisiana State

Oklahoma

Nebraska

Memphis

Florida State

Florida

Bowling Green

Wisconsin

UMKC

Cincinnati

Brandeis

Boston U

Colorado

Arizona State

Michigan State

Temple

Texas Tech

Texas

Buffalo

South Carolina

These are all great schools that I don't hear people on here necessarily talk about. They offer a great education with wonderful teachers who can help take your skill to the next level. In addition to composition, the ensembles are excellent and the musicians are serious.

As a catch, there are even more schools that offer Master's that are DYING for people to take them.

That's a different conversation!

Grad School is music is fun! There's plenty of work behind it but it's awesome! I fully recommend it

Come to Australia. The government pays for your post graduate studies!

Come to Australia. The government pays for your post graduate studies!

I'm keeping that in mind, John! Seriously. Maybe I'll Join Riley Lee and Brian Ritchie (of Violent Femmes fame) in migrating to Australia to study shakuhachi/ethnomusicology.

Thanks for that list, maestrowick, although some of those schools are really hard to get into and they may not all have funding. I applied to Temple, for example, and I don't remember hearing much about scholarships.

Some schools can be bourgeois which is my point. If one applies to Temple, apply to say Utah also. Temple has already in mind who they are going to give money to, so go to a place like Memphis who has tons of money (trust me, I know!) Their music school is EXCELLENT (I even say better than Temple) but some may not know about them.

Here are some links on Kamran Ince, one of the professors there.

http://www.turkishcu...rof-dr-1111.htm

http://www.schott-mu...ersons/az/9445/

http://en.wikipedia....iki/Kamran_Ince

I'd add The Grad Center/City University of NY for PhD or DMA programs. The tuition if you gain residency is very low - about $8,000 per year. Of course you are living in NYC ... so the cost of living is much higher.

Also add for MA, Queens College/CUNY - part of the same system. The MA and undergraduate programs are very good and very affordable.

I'll second those. If you want to be in NYC then Queens College and the Graduate Center are EXCELLENT schools with killer faculty. They are public so tuition is comparatively low, but scholarship money is limited.

Grad School is music is fun! There's plenty of work behind it but it's awesome! I fully recommend it

and from what I hear, it is sort of necessary.