Musicology & Ethnomusicology

Musicology & Ethnomusicology

Bachelor degree
48 months
Application deadlines: January 6, November 1
Processing time: 90 days
Application fee: $80
Full-time
Intakes: September 3, January 21
International tuition: $54,720
Domestic tuition: $54,720

Program overview

It is a vibrant, active, diverse, supportive, and inclusive Department, dedicated to a shared purpose and a field without walls between scholarship and performance. Faculty expertise runs the gamut from the Middle Ages to popular music, from Indonesia to Japan, Africa, and the Americas, and from manuscript studies to oral traditions. Students are encouraged to search new vistas of inquiry and stretch themselves intellectually in a supportive and cooperative environment.

Study options

Study options
This program can be done
On campus

Requirements

Exams:

    • Application fee • Secondary School Records • English Proficiency Testing Results If your first language or the primary language spoken in your home is not English, you must take either the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or International English Language Testing System (IELTS) • Documentation of Financial Support • Copy of Data Page of Passport

    Career opportunities

    As a unit within the School of Music has links to a large performing school as well as to a wide range of other academic departments. In addition, BU is a member of the Boston Consortium, a group of universities where students can cross-register for courses. The Center for Early Music Studies at Boston University (CEMS) is dedicated to the cultivation and dissemination of performance, scholarship, and new pedagogical practices involving music of the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical periods.

    Campus location

    Boston , United States

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