The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University

Qualified Peabody undergraduates have the option of applying to complete a master’s degree in one additional year of study after they complete their bachelor’s degree. The selection process takes place in the junior year and includes academic and performance elements. Students selected for the program maintain their initial financial assistance levels throughout the five years of study.

Admittance to the B.M./M.M. program is limited to outstanding performers with excellent academic records. Minimum standards for applying are an average of A- and above in all major lessons and juries, and grades of B+ or higher in each of  the following areas: two or more semesters of the core music history courses; four or more semesters of the core music theory courses; two or more semesters of  eartraining/sight-singing courses; and two or more semesters of keyboard skills courses. In addition, successful applicants will have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.50 and will have attained the Dean’s List (a cumulative GPA of 3.67 or higher) for a minimum of four semesters.

Undergraduate students may apply for admittance to the B.M./M.M. program in the academic year in which they are scheduled to perform their 309 jury or junior recital (or, for composition majors, in their junior year) by submitting an application by April 1 of that year. Admittance into the B.M./M.M. program guarantees the extension of the student’s initial merit scholarship award for a fifth year of study.

Admittance into the B.M./M.M. program includes the proviso that a student’s fourth and fifth years of performance or composition study be with a single studio teacher unless there are circumstances that require special arrangements to be made by the associate dean for academic affairs.

Students who wish to complete a B.M. in performance or composition and then
earn an M.M. in musicology, music theory pedagogy, or performance/pedagogy are also eligible to apply for this program.