The School of Music offers the Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in composition and the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees in theory. The composition program offers semi-annual orchestra readings of student works, weekly composition seminars, concerts featuring student works, and concerts of electroacoustic music. The theory curriculum offers a full spectrum of studies in traditional and twentieth-century music.
Classes are small, and individual instruction is available.
The electronic studios are well equipped and maintained, and offer representative technology for analog and digital synthesis, sampling, MIDI, and music printing. The School of Music Endowed Chair in Composition and Theory is filled every third year.