Music Education MMED

Expand Your Music Teacher Skills and Abilities 

If you are a certified music teacher and want to expand your professional skills or advance your career to the next level, apply to Rhode Island College’s MMED in music education program. This advanced degree program includes the study of K-12 teaching methods; applied music; assessment; classroom research; and the history, philosophy and psychology of music education. 

Curriculum Crafted by You and Advisor

Your program is individually developed by you and your graduate advisor, based on information derived from your application, audition, department entrance audition and personal interview. After all the admissions steps have been completed, you and your graduate advisor will work together to develop a formal Plan of Study which, when approved and signed, will become your degree curriculum.

Our programs are fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.

Program Schedule and Progression

Most of your required courses can be taken in the summer or evenings; and normally, coursework can be completed in three years while attending part time. The program culminates in either a thesis involving original research in the field, a solo recital in your applied area or a conducting recital (choral or instrumental).

You may start taking courses in the program before the Plan of Study is formulated, especially if your application process has begun and if the courses you are taking are expected to be included in your Plan of Study. A maximum of 9 credit hours taken before formal admission can be included in your program. Depending on the agreed Plan of Study, a maximum of 6 credit hours of graduate coursework may be accepted in transfer from other institutions.