Master’s degree · MM / MMus
Jazz Studies, Jazz Performance or Composition Concentration, M.M. (Online)
North Carolina Central University · Department of Music · Durham, North Carolina, United States
- Official award
- Master of Music in Jazz StudiesM.M.
- Subject
- Jazz StudiesComposition (concentration)
- Format
- Low residency
- Tuition
- Not published
Low-residency program
About this program
The Jazz Studies, Jazz Performance or Composition Concentration, M.M. (Online) is listed in the official degree catalog of the institution.
- Department
- Department 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 Jazz StudiesM.M.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Jazz Studies | Dedicated degreeThe official program title is in this subject. | |
| Composition | Official concentrationA formally named concentration, track or emphasis of a broader degree, confirmed on an official page. | Jazz Composition & ArrangingApplicants apply to this pathway“This program is offered in two concentrations, Jazz Composition & Arranging or Jazz Performance.”Source |
Accreditation, validation and recognition
Recorded for this program and campus, with the authority’s role. Institutional accreditation, degree-awarding authority, program accreditation, professional validation and national qualification registers are different things.
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
- 4-week on-campus residency in two consecutive summers
- Residency frequency
- Two consecutive summers
- Residency length
- 4 weeks each summer
- Residency location
- NCCU campus (page says on campus)
- Attendance mandatory
- Yes
- Travel expectations
- Not published
- Online components
- Online courses during one fall and one spring semester
- Additional residency costs
- Not published
- Recitals and performance assessment
- Capstone recital and lecture in the last summer 4-week residency
- In-person assessment
- Capstone recital and lecture in the last summer residency
- Live attendance
- Live attendance not published
- International enrolment
- Not published
- Study mode
- Not published
- Duration
- Not published
- Intakes
- Not published
- Campus
- Department of Music (Durham)
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 required
- Portfolio
- Portfolio requirement not published
- Interview
- Not published
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, duration, full-time or part-time options, intakes, 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)