One of the most renowned is Juilliard School in New York, a professional educational arm of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
[6] In the United Kingdom, the Bachelor of Music is generally a first degree lasting three years or four years and consisting of a wide range of areas of study (normally including performance, composition, music theory, musicology/music history), but at the University of Oxford[7] and University of Cambridge[8] it was a one-year postgraduate degree which could only be taken if a student were to have been a graduate in music with honors at those universities; the undergraduate course is in the Faculty of Arts and leads to the Bachelor of Arts (and subsequently the Master of Arts (Oxbridge)).
[16] The University of Canberra offers a 'Bachelor of Creative Industries (Contemporary Music Practice)'.
Some programs may require BMus graduates to complete preparatory or make-up courses in the field of the master's.
BMus graduates in some fields, such as composition, music theory, or musicology may be able to apply directly to PhD programs if they have a high average and strong recommendation letters.