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The university aims to foster academic and artistic growth for both its students and the broader community through these key initiatives: (1) providing undergraduate and graduate programs designed to help students fully develop their musical abilities, (2) delivering specialized degree tracks that cultivate exceptional skills for meaningful contributions to music-related fields, and (3) equipping students for advanced studies or professional music careers by maintaining rigorous curriculum requirements, performance benchmarks, and academic standards. Students gain performance experience through diverse options including ensemble groups of varying sizes, solo performances, operatic productions, musical theater, studio recitals, enrichment ensembles, and marching band participation.
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.