Master’s degree · MM / MMus
Master of Music in Music Education: Professional Practice Emphasis
Converse University · Petrie School of Music · Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States
- Official award
- Master of Music in Music Education: Professional Practice EmphasisMM
- Subject
- Music Education
- Format
- Low residencytwo-year program
- Tuition
- Not published
Low-residency program
About this program
A two-year low-residency master's for practising music educators combining online semesters with two summer residencies.
- Department
- Petrie School of Music
- Awarding body
- Not stated on the pages we checked
Award and subject
The award is shown exactly as the institution titles it. A program belongs to a subject only through the link below: a dedicated degree, a named major, a formal concentration or a documented pathway.
- Official award
- Master of Music in Music Education: Professional Practice EmphasisMM
- Award family
- MM / MMusA Master of Music or MMus, exactly as titled by the awarding institution.
- Qualification level
- Master’s degree
- Qualification standing
- Academic qualificationA degree, or a certificate or diploma awarded by a degree-awarding institution within a national qualifications framework.
- Orientation
- Orientation not published
- Previous degree required
- Not published
| Subject | Relationship | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Music Education | Dedicated degreeThe official program title is in this subject. |
Accreditation, validation and recognition
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No program-level accreditation or validation record has been verified yet. That does not mean none exists; check the national authority and the institution.
Study structure
- Delivery
- Low residencyMostly distance study with required periods on site (residencies). It is never described as fully online.
- Online instruction
- Distance study with required residencies
- Mandatory campus attendance
- Yes
- Campus residencies or workshops
- Two 10-day summer residencies on the Converse University campus, one in each summer of the two-year program
- Residency frequency
- Two summers (one residency in each summer of the two-year program)
- Residency length
- 10 days each
- Residency location
- Converse University, Spartanburg campus
- Attendance mandatory
- Yes
- Travel expectations
- On-campus housing and meals are not provided as part of the summer curriculum.
- Online components
- Four online semesters of coursework in fall and spring, synchronous and asynchronous
- Additional residency costs
- Not published
- Live attendance
- Live attendance not published
- International enrolment
- Not published
- Study mode
- Not published
- Duration
- two-year program
- Credits
- 30 graduate credit hoursCredit systems differ between countries and institutions.
- Campus attendance
- Two 10-day summer residencies
- Dissertation, thesis or artistic research
- capstone professional project or thesis with an oral presentation or defense
- Intakes
- Not published
- Campus
- Converse University580 E. Main Street
Teaching language
- Taught in
- English
- English
- English teaching not verifiedAn English-language website does not mean a program is taught in English.
Admissions
- Audition
- Audition requirement not published
- Audition details
- Portfolio
- Portfolio requirement not published
- Interview
- Not published
- Documents
- Submit evidence of a current and valid state teaching license or test scores from either the PKE or the music area test of the Praxis II series.
Fees and costs
Original currency is authoritative. Each price keeps its basis (per year, per credit, whole program), academic year and student category, and is never converted. Annual tuition and whole-program tuition are different figures.
The institution does not publish tuition for this program on the pages we checked. Ask for current fees, what they include and whether lessons, accompanists, practice rooms, instrument hire, software, recording, recitals, travel and residency costs are extra.
Sources and verification
Not published on the program’s source pages: tuition, full-time or part-time options, intakes, audition requirement, whether a previous degree is required, accreditation or validation record.
Sources and how this was checked
Last checked 25 October 2026. Each fact carries a verbatim quote that is re-checked against the live page. Research methodology.
Sources (checked 25 October 2026)