The Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

We have three undergraduate programs at Peabody. Each leads to a bachelor of music degree. The performance standards for entering or graduating from any of these programs is the same.

• Music Performance

• Music Education
      Admissions info | Department homepage

• Recording Arts and Sciences
      Admissions info | Department homepage

Students entering Peabody in any of the above three programs must audition, and be accepted in one of the following performance majors.

• Composition
      Admissions info | Department homepage

• Computer Music (Emphasis on Performance or Composition)
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• Early Music Instruments (Baroque flute, Lute, Viola da Gamba, Harpsichord, Baroque violin, Baroque cello, Recorder, Theorbo, and Baroque oboe)
      Department homepage

• Guitar
      Admissions info | Department homepage

• Jazz
      Admissions info | Department homepage

• Keyboard Instruments
      Piano Admissions info | Department homepage
      Organ Department homepage

• Orchestral Instruments
      Admissions info | Flute admissions info
      Department homepages: Brass | Harp | Percussion | Strings | Woodwinds

• Voice
      Admissions info | Department homepage

Peabody does not offer undergraduate programs or majors in:

• Accompanying
• Church Music
• Conducting (We have classes, but no major at the undergrad level)
• Dance (Lots of dance classes in the Prep for those who are interested)
• Early Music (We do not have a program that leads to a degree in Early Music, but you can major in an early music instrument within our other programs)
• Ethnomusicology
• Music industry programs (like Arts Administration)
• Musical Theater
• Music Therapy
• Pedagogy (Although we have no major in pedagogy on the undergraduate level, our piano and guitar programs have pedagogy requirements)