They also spend one year in Jerusalem at the Seminary s Schechter Institute, where they study with students from Seminary schools worldwide. JTS graduates apply traditional Jewish values to contemporary issues as they serve in pulpits, as hospital and hospice chaplains, on campuses, in education, in scholarship, and in Jewish communal service. The H.L. Miller Cantorial School and College of Jewish Music trains students to become hazzanim, music teachers, choral directors, composers, and research scholars. It grants the diploma of hazzan and awards bachelor, master and doctor of sacred music degrees. The cantorial program is a rigorous, five-year course, encompassing vocal training, general music, Jewish music, sacred texts, Judaic studies and Hebrew studies.
Students spend their first program year in Israel.
The Graduate School of JTS offers the largest, most comprehensive graduate program in Judaica in the Western Hemisphere. Seminary graduate programs lead to degrees of master of arts, doctor of Hebrew literature and doctor of philosophy. Some programs are offered jointly through consortia with other institutions, enabling students to achieve the broadest training possible. In all, graduate degrees are offered in 15 fields of Judaica. The William Davidson Graduate School of Jewish Education is helping to revitalize Jewish education around the world.