MM Jazz Studies

The Jazz Studies program at the University of North Texas provides you with an intense musical experience. It's large enough to constitute its own scene while enabling you to receive individual attention from faculty members.

You can pursue a Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies in one of three tracks: performance, composition and pedagogy. At the doctoral level, we offer a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Performance with a concentration in Jazz Studies.

Students participate in the region's musical life while at UNT and later join a large community of successful jazz alumni.

We currently have 60 to 70 master's students and nine doctoral students and graduate about 17 graduate students each year. Our primary goals are to:

• Prepare you for a successful career as a jazz performer, composer, arranger or educator.
• Cultivate your knowledge of and appreciation for the jazz tradition and the broader musical traditions from which it's grown.
• Encourage your creative efforts and share your results on university, local, regional, national and international levels in performances and recordings.
• Help you enter the profession through interactions with guest artists and learning about music industry entrepreneurship.