The School for the Arts (Music) offers exciting degree options that suit a range of interests and levels of experience. All of our music degrees include opportunities to take courses in ensemble performance, composition, music theory, music history and musicology, jazz, music education and pedagogy, conducting, musicianship skills, and more!

Our BMus degrees include individual applied lessons in voice or an instrument and require an audition for admission. Auditions are not required for our BA in Music degrees.

Learn more about applying and auditioning

The following degree programs are offered by the School for the Arts (Music):

Bachelor of Music Degrees

The three BMus streams have a common first year. Students are streamed into one of the three options based on their interests and aptitudes at the end of the first year.

The BMus Performance Honours is designed to prepare students for careers in performance or private music teaching.

The BMus Individualized is intended for students who wish to have the maximum amount of flexibility within their BMus degree and is designed to be relevant to a wide variety of careers or further studies in and outside of music. BMus students are automatically streamed into the Individualized degree unless they take steps to apply for the Performance or Education Streams.

The BMus Music Education (with Honours options) is designed to prepare students for careers as professional music educators within a school-based setting. It is a four-year program with a specialization in teaching music at either the Secondary or Elementary/Middle Years levels, in conjunction with a second teaching area. Students in this program are automatically accepted into the College of Education’s two-year Bachelor of Education program, with music as their primary teaching area and a second teaching area of their choice.

Bachelor of Arts in Music Degrees

The BA in Music (Three-Year, Four-Year, and Honours options) is intended for students who want to immerse themselves in music studies without a focus on individual performance. It is designed to be relevant to a wide variety of careers or further studies in and outside of music.

For more information about undergraduate degree programs in music, please see:

• Music
• Music Education

The School for the Arts (Music) offers a Jazz Certificate and a Music and Wellbeing Certificate. These certificates are open to all students at the University of Saskatchewan and can be combined with any of the undergraduate degrees in music.

For more information about music certificates, please see:

• Jazz Certificate
• Music & Wellbeing Certificate

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