Expand your musical technique and understanding within your choice of creative practice in classical, jazz, composition, or popular music specialization, or in your music studies specialization at New Zealand’s largest tertiary music school.

In the Bachelor of Music (BMus), you’ll learn to both preserve the past and nurture progress as you focus on your chosen discipline and prepare to enter a changing music industry. 

What can you study in the Music Studies specialization at the University of Auckland?

The Music Studies specialization covers a wide range of sub-disciplines, including music production, music education, musicology, and ensemble direction.

The Music Studies specialization provides you with a rich variety of courses in a range of disciplines. 

Music Production includes a range of specialist courses. 

These cover topics such as arrangement, pre-production, industry-standard recording and audio engineering techniques, professional mixing and mastering, music theory, history, and industry studies, as well as live sound, sound design for film, video games, and virtual reality.

• Birth Certificate or Passport or Citizenship Certificate
• Official academic transcript
• Official program completion certificate
• Mark sheets
• Relevant course outlines
• Official translations of documents in a language other than English and the original language version
• English language proficiency
• Portfolio (If required)

Secondary school qualifications

India: You need to have one of the following:

• 12 years of schooling and an overall average of 75% in the All-India Senior School Certificate (AISSC), Indian School Certificate (ISC), Karnataka, Maharashtra and West Bengal State Board Examinations with a minimum of 70%t in English.
• 12 years of schooling and an overall average of 80% in all other Higher Secondary State Board Examinations with a minimum of 75% in English.

China:

• The National College Entrance Examination (NCEE) otherwise known as Gaokao. (Have a high school diploma or equivalent, Be in good health…) (Score required = 67%)

Further requirements

A specialization in Composition or Music Studies has no audition or portfolio requirements.

Tertiary qualifications

You can transfer from another tertiary institution if you meet these requirements.

• You need to have the following: One-year successful bachelor-degree level study at a recognized university (or similar institution) overseas.
• Grade required = GPE 2.2 (56%)

Other pathways to study

• Bridge your educational gap with a preparation and foundation program.
• Completion of a 2.5-year Diploma in Music at SEGi College with a University of Auckland GPE of 2.2 (a cumulative GPA of 2.3 or above at SEGi College) will allow applicants to enter into Part II of the Bachelor of Music degree program at the University of Auckland.