This professional degree prepares students to a high level within the discipline of music, including performance, theory and history, and, at the same time, prepares future teachers for careers of distinction and leadership. The central philosophy of the degree is that music teachers can be most effective only by first becoming accomplished musicians themselves, capable of performing, conducting and analyzing at a sophisticated level.

In summary, this new degree offers Carroll students distinctive advantages, including:

• A reasonable credit load that allows students to graduate in four years.
• A high percentage of music study that develops advanced musical skills.
• Concentrated study in music while retaining a solid grounding in the liberal arts.
• An enriched music teacher training program with the introduction of new courses in methods of teaching and music literature not often found at the undergraduate level.