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Your major helps you develop knowledge, skills and abilities that employers seek.

To identify additional skills and abilities you have developed through your coursework, activities and work, consider using the reflection worksheets (accessible via B.hired > Resources) and/or Type Focus (accessible via B.hired > Resources).

Internships

The Brandeis Internship Exchange is a convenient online tool to find and share internship opportunities.

Just log on with your UNET ID and use the advanced search to search internships by major.

Department of Music

Overview
First Destination Data
Alumni Career Paths
Skills, Abilities & Knowledge
Internships
What to do with a degree in Music
Sample of Occupations
Music Web Sites
Graduate School Information

Overview 

Across all of the arts disciplines taught at Brandeis is the shared belief that art is the great legacy of human accomplishment, essential to interdisciplinary learning.  By uniting musical expression with academic excellence, the Department of Music 
educates students to become accomplished artists and scholars, and engaged citizens prepared to contribute to a multicultural society.  Through rigorous study in composition, cultural studies, history, and performance, students in the Department of Music are afforded a broad view on complex social, political, economic, and cultural questions, an understanding of which is valued in every field of endeavor in the global marketplace.

The department’s web site also contains career-related resources including opportunities to gain important performance experience through an array of music ensembles and to keep up to date on your field through The Score: Music Department News.

First Destination Data 

The Hiatt Center is pleased to provide a list of organizations, titles and fields of alumni who majored in your discipline. Click here to download a sortable spreadsheet listing the first destination graduate programs and employment opportunities that Music alumni from the classes of 2008-2012 secured within six months of graduation.

The diverse list is indicative of the wealth of transferable skills students cultivate as a Music major at Brandeis.

Department of Music Alumni

The Hiatt Center is pleased to provide a list of organizations, titles and fields of alumni who majored in your discipline. The list represents a wide array of professions, which is indicative of the wealth of transferable skills students cultivate as a Music major at Brandeis.

Skills, Abilities & Knowledge  

Your program of study at Brandeis University provides both field-specific knowledge and a broad range of transferable skills, abilities and knowledge that are sought after by all employers in all fields and enhance your experience and success in the world of work. To identify additional skills and abilities you have developed through coursework, activities and work, take TypeFocus. 

Internships 

In addition to you coursework, internships can be extremely beneficial as you develop academic and professional skills.  The Brandeis Internship Exchange is an easy and convenient online tool for you to find and share real internship opportunities.  Just log on with your UNET ID and use the advanced search to identify majors' internships.

What to Do with a Degree in Music (.pdf)

Sample of Possible Occupations

Department of Music Web Sites

• American Federation of Musicians
• American Music Therapy Association
• Job Listings and Internships for Entertainment Careers
• Music Professions from Thinkquest
• National Association of Music Education
• Women in Music National Network

Graduate School Information and Resources

• MBA, M.S., and Ph.D. information