You’ll concentrate on all aspects of jazz performance, composition and improvisation. Assignments will take you into the city’s professional recording studios where you’ll have the opportunity to meet and work with the best in the business. Jazz studies majors perform in one of the large jazz bands and many combos. Our jazz ensembles have won national acclaim for their performances on campus, on tour and on recordings. Faculty members in this program are among Chicago’s top studio artists, composers and arrangers. They have worked with virtually every major group, from Woody Herman and Gerry Mulligan to Maynard Ferguson. For jazz studies students, it is not unusual for these experiences, professional contacts and faculty ties to lead to career opportunities after graduation.

High school completion is required. Students educated outside the U.S. for secondary school (high school) are required to submit an exam score that meets English proficiency requirement.