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Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan School of Music
130 Claremont Avenue
New York, NY 10027-4698

Official telephone: (212) 749-2802
Fax number: (212) 749-5471
Website: https://www.msmnyc.edu/
Screen last updated on: September 2025
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
Calendar system: semester system (two terms comprise academic year)
Month(s) in which new student orientation is held: Orientation for new students is held prior to start of fall term.

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Percent of full-time freshman students who returned for sophomore year: 81%

REQUIRED UNDERGRADUATE CURRICULUM
General education/core curriculum is required: yes

PROGRAMS OFFERED
Special programs offered:
independent study, distance learning
Cooperative programs are offered: yes
Graduate schools/programs are offered: yes
Study abroad opportunities:
Study-abroad program offered.

LIST OF MAJORS
Bachelor's Degrees

  • Brass Instruments
  • Conducting
  • Jazz/Jazz Studies
  • Keyboard Instruments
  • Music Performance, General
  • Music Theory and Composition
  • Music, General
  • Musical Theatre
  • Percussion Instruments
  • Stringed Instruments
  • Visual and Performing Arts, Other
  • Voice and Opera
  • Woodwind Instruments
Certificates

  • Brass Instruments
  • Conducting
  • Jazz/Jazz Studies
  • Keyboard Instruments
  • Music Theory and Composition
  • Percussion Instruments
  • Stringed Instruments
  • Visual and Performing Arts, Other
  • Voice and Opera
  • Woodwind Instruments
Diplomas

  • Brass Instruments
  • Conducting
  • Jazz/Jazz Studies
  • Keyboard Instruments
  • Music Theory and Composition
  • Percussion Instruments
  • Stringed Instruments
  • Visual and Performing Arts, Other
  • Voice and Opera
  • Woodwind Instruments
Doctorates

  • Brass Instruments
  • Conducting
  • Jazz/Jazz Studies
  • Keyboard Instruments
  • Music Theory and Composition
  • Percussion Instruments
  • Stringed Instruments
  • Visual and Performing Arts, Other
  • Voice and Opera
  • Woodwind Instruments
Master's Degrees

  • Brass Instruments
  • Conducting
  • Jazz/Jazz Studies
  • Keyboard Instruments
  • Music Performance, General
  • Music Theory and Composition
  • Percussion Instruments
  • Stringed Instruments
  • Visual and Performing Arts, Other
  • Voice and Opera
  • Woodwind Instruments

ADVANCED CREDIT/PLACEMENT
Credit placement options:
    (scores of 2 or higher)
  • credit for international baccalaureate

CERTIFICATES OFFERED
  • False
 
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