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With an interdisciplinary approach, UTA's music business program combines coursework from both the Music Department and College of Business. This curriculum equips aspiring musicians for diverse roles across the industry, including management, PR, entertainment law, artist representation, publishing, marketing, and financial aspects. The program blends music business classes with digital music technology, introductory audio recording, and complementary business courses.
The program's educational and artistic enrichment goals focus on: (1) providing undergraduate and graduate programs that help students maximize their musical abilities, (2) developing degree paths that cultivate students' talents for meaningful contributions to music fields, and (3) preparing graduates for advanced study or professional music careers by maintaining rigorous academic, performance, and curricular standards.
Students must have completed official secondary school transcripts, diplomas, certificates and/or national test examination scores as appropriate for the educational systems in their country. In order to be considered for freshman admission students must have completed secondary school studies equivalent to that of United States high school graduation.
Official SAT I or ACT scores are required for entering freshmen with less than 24 semester hours of university level course work (equivalent to one year of full time study).
The minimum acceptable score on the TOEFL is 79 on the Internet-based test, 550 on the paper-based test and 213 on the computer-based test. The IELTS can be substituted for TOEFL scores. The minimum acceptable overall score of 6.5 is required for admission.