317 Bachelor's degrees in Music Composition in North America

The Jazz Studies, Composition programme at Temple University is a public Bachelor of Music degree. This 123-credit course focuses on advanced arrangement and improvisation. Students benefit from a full-time study mode in Philadelphia, developing professional skills through master classes and private instrumental lessons.

The Composition program at Michigan State University lies at the intersection of the creation, research, and performance of music and sound with other art forms.

The Music Composition programme at the University of California, Santa Barbara offers a full-time undergraduate degree designed for aspiring professional composers. This intensive course focuses on developing a unique creative voice through one-on-one tutorials and small seminars, preparing students for advanced graduate study.

The Music Composition programme at the University of Georgia is a professional degree designed for aspiring creators. This full-time course provides intensive training in original creative work alongside applied instrumental lessons. Students engage in a public study mode, benefiting from a comprehensive four-year curriculum.

At Boston University, the Composition and Music Theory programs will help you gain a broad knowledge of contemporary and historical compositional practices, and a mastery of analytic techniques for tonal and post-tonal music.

If your passion lies in creating new music, mastering writing techniques and discovering your unique compositional voice, the Music Composition major at Bradley University can prepare you to pursue these endeavors and embark on a successful career.

Composition at New England Conservatory of Music focuses on practice and performance, providing numerous opportunities for young composers to interact and collaborate with the world’s best young musicians. 

Jazz at North Carolina Central University provides academic, applied instrumental and vocal, and ensemble instruction focused on the development of knowledge and skills necessary in jazz instrumental and vocal performance. 

The Music Composition programme taught at Central Washington University offers an opportunity for students who have command of their instrument to become an informed, artistic, and more successful composer of music.

Training as a composer at Stetson University includes a unique mix of classes not available at any other university in the country, with private lessons in composition during all four years of study and upper-division courses in counterpoint, orchestration and technology. With the Music Composition program of Stetson University, you will focus on creating music in a wide array of musical forms.

Did you know CIM was founded by a composer, Ernest Bloch? That means composition has been at CIM's core ever since 1920. In the Composition program of Cleveland Institute of Music you'll build on that legacy to write sophisticated and meaningful music for the twenty-first century.

The Music - Music Theory - Composition degree at Southern Illinois University promotes scholarly rigor, innovative experimentation, and creative production.

The Composition program of The Juilliard School is the principal undergraduate program in music, and nearly all of the undergraduate musicians are enrolled in it. It requires students to supplement their music studies with a prescribed number of courses in the Liberal Arts Department.

Our distinctly Christian B.M. in Composition degree at Cedarville University  will prepare you for a career in film and concert composition, arranging, music production, and music entrepreneurship. 

As a Composition major of Berklee College of Music, you will develop your individual compositional voice through a variety of active composing projects, alongside the study of contemporary music, orchestration, analysis, harmony, and counterpoint.

Explore the creation of emotional soundscape within Houghton College’s Bachelor of Music in Music Composition. The history of the arts as we know it would be nothing without the foundation of musical composition, demanding novel pieces to fit the style of an era’s expressionism.  

The Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Worship Arts at Southwestern Christian University is to equip undergraduate students to excel in a worship-related career and to positively influence their worship leadership in the local and international church. 

Longy composers in the Composition and Theory program from Bard College work in a vibrant, artistic environment where public performance of new compositions is central to the experience. 

Develop a high artistic level of composition and be prepared for a career in composition, film and media scoring, orchestration and arranging, copying, and/or producing with a Music Composition degree from Nazareth University. 

This Bachelor of Music Composition at Mercyhurst University allows students to develop the essential technical toolbox and broad aesthetic perspective needed to assume a place in the community of professional composers.