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The Global Jazz Studies Bachelor of Arts program inspires students to adopt a worldwide perspective on jazz's power to reshape both musical landscapes and societal contexts, while leveraging UCLA's robust jazz and world music curriculum. Tailored for aspiring jazz artists, educators, producers, and researchers, the program combines academic studies in jazz history and culture with hands-on training through private lessons, ensemble participation, and classes covering music theory, instrumentation, improvisation, composition, and arrangement. This interdisciplinary degree integrates resources from multiple music disciplines and collaborates with UCLA's African American Studies department.
To be considered for admission to UCLA, international students must have completed secondary school with a superior average in academic subjects and have earned a certificate of completion which enables the student to be admitted to a university in the home country.
English language proficiency is critical to your success at UCLA. Applicants, whose first language, or language of instruction for at least the last three years, is not English, are required to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Language Testing Service (IELTS).
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL): A competitive score is above 100 (with sub-scores above 22)
International English Language Testing System (IELTS): A competitive score is 7 or higher.