1. California State University Long Beach
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BA Music

4 Years On Campus Bachelors Program

California State University Long Beach

Program Overview

A non-performance-focused degree that sets music within the broader context of interdisciplinary studies, diversity, and contemporary thought. This degree has a basic music core, upper-division elective music units focused on popular, world, and film music as well as art music, an individualized track of non-music elective studies that focuses in at least two other disciplines (one major area and one or more minor areas), and a final research project culminating in a comprehensive senior paper/project that sets music within a context of historical, cultural, theoretical, or interdisciplinary studies, diversity issues, and contemporary thought.

Program Key Stats

$5742 (Annual Cost)



32 %

Eligibility Criteria

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Additional Information & Requirements

Complete each of the courses in the comprehensive pattern of college preparatory subject requirements with a grade of C or higher prior to high school graduation.3.0 GPA or greater in college preparatory subjects, AND 3,500 minimum CSULB Index to be considered, for non-STEM major and a 3,600 minimum STEM Index for STEM majors.

Career Options

  • Dancer
  • Theater director
  • Arts administrator
  • Broadcasting presenter
  • Teacher/higher education lecturer

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