M.A. in Music Education – Performance

Residential Music Education – Performance Program

Enhance your music education career with a Music Education (M.A.): Performance degree from Liberty University. Develop your skills on your primary instrument (including voice), while growing in your knowledge of educational philosophy and the principles of pedagogy. Gain practical, hands-on teaching experience that will help you succeed in your future classrooms.

Learn from experienced professors who are grounded in their Christian faith and integrate a biblical worldview into the classroom. Professors in this degree program hold advanced and terminal degrees in music education and performance, as well as decades of real-world experience in the classroom at every level.

The Liberty University School of Music features 50 state-of-the-art practice rooms, smart classrooms, and a world-class concert hall.

You’ll choose a capstone research project that matches your interests:

• Music Education Curriculum Project (MUSC 687): demonstrate your research through curriculum development and assessment
• Lecture Performance Recital (MUSC 691): express your research through performance and lecture
• Thesis (MUSC 690): complete a comprehensive research paper that can lead to doctoral work

Academics: Music Education (M.A.) – Performance

Career Opportunities: Music Education – Performance Graduates

• K-12 Music Educator
• Collegiate-level Music Educator
• Professional Music Education Consultant

• Director of Community Music Arts Program
• Music Education Supervisor
• School Music Administrator