Music Education

Program highlights

• Highly accomplished faculty. The BGSU music education faculty share your passion for music and love of teaching. A teaching mentor works one-on-one with you to create an individualized study plan based on your own teaching situation. 
• Personalized career paths. You have considerable flexibility within your individual program to create the degree that meets your needs and achieves your goals.
• Flexibility for working professionals. The online music education masters program meets demands of those who already have music teacher jobs and wish to deepen their skills, knowledge and opportunities. 
• Use your classroom as a learning lab. BGSU equips working professionals to utilize their current classroom as an action-based lab. Design and implement an action research project examining student learning and teaching practice, and then write a report to present your findings.
• Valuable real-world experiences. Graduate students in the music education degree program may be qualified to teach some courses at the undergraduate level. You walk away with collegiate teaching experience. A master of music in education opens the door to more roles in leadership and teaching at the university level. 
• Expanded professional network. Learn from world-class music faculty and bolster your peer network. Research shows higher teacher collaboration is positively correlated with greater student performance.
• Modern music facilities. The College of Musical Arts has 70 practice rooms, an 822-seat concert hall, a 221-seat recital hall, fully-equipped computer labs and an Electroacoustics Studio.
• NASM accreditation. The BGSU Master of Music in education degree program adheres to rigorous quality standards and is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music Commission on Accreditation.