To ensure that students’ education is well-rounded and creatively inspired, Texas State offers a large variety of performing opportunities, including participation in opera productions, choir, orchestra, and concert and marching bands, chamber ensembles, award-winning mariachi and salsa ensembles and other vibrant cultural music groups.
The music programs prepare students to excel in the disciplines of music teaching, history, conducting, composition, theory, and performance.
Course Work
The School of Music offers advanced study within 15 concentrations.
The master of music (M.M.) degree requires 36 credit hours.
Concentrations include: choral conducting, composition, history and literature, instrumental conducting, jazz performance, keyboard, string, or guitar performance, Latin music performance, performance and pedagogy (classical instruments/voice), theory, voice performance, and woodwind, brass, or percussion performance.
Career Options
Students will find a variety of career options:
Authoring or editing music publications
Composing/arranging music for film, professional ensembles or commercial projects
Conducting professional ensembles
Performing with opera companies, symphony orchestras,
Jazz ensembles or Latin ensembles
Teaching in public or private schools, colleges and private studios
Writing professional articles and textbooks
1 October 2023
Start date
21 August 2023, 16 January 2024
Texas State University
601 University Drive,
SAN MARCOS,
Texas,
78666, United States
Baccalaureate degree in music from a regionally accredited university
Minimum 2.75 GPA in your last 60 hours of undergraduate course work (plus any completed graduate courses)
Official TOEFL iBT scores required with a 78 overall
Official IELTS (academic) scores required with a 6.5 overall and minimum individual module scores of 6.0
Application deadline: Fall Term - June 1; Spring Term - October 1; Summer I - March 15
*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.
