The mission of the Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting is:

• To provide a specifically music performance-based education and to train conductors to firmly establish and demonstrate professional level conducting skills;
• To provide a platform of learning that includes performance, creativity, scholarship, and significant research;
• To foster a sense of community involvement of the arts and in the arts.

Because choral conducting students are working with an "instrument" comprised of human singers, the variables with which they must work (as opposed to a solo instrument) are various. After graduation, they are prepared to work in any number of venues, including academia, sacred music setting (church music), professional choir, community choir, and more.