[2] Since the 1970s, approximately one-third of all North Texas music students have been enrolled at the graduate level.

[3][4] Its heritage dates back one hundred and thirty-four years, when North Texas was founded.

Its size, its array of disciplines organized across eight academic divisions, its six research centers, its six major ensemble areas that produce over 70 ensembles, and the number of degrees offered — from bachelor's degrees to doctorates to artist certificates — allows the college the achieve the type of critical mass to be highly comprehensive (wide and deep) and prolific in academics, research, and performance, from big to small to standard to experimental to esoteric.

[4] Since the 1970s, approximately one-third of all North Texas music students have been enrolled at the graduate level.

U.S. News & World Report, in its annual America's Best Graduate Schools, ranked the jazz studies program as the best in the country every year from 1994, when it began ranking graduate jazz programs, to 1997, when it retired the category.