- Rutger’s degree programs are extending from the baccalaureate to the doctorate.
- Specializations include classical performance in voice, keyboard, guitar and orchestral instruments, conducting, theory, composition, musicology, jazz studies, and music education.
- They also have two certificate programs in recording arts for music technology and a Music Program in American Language Studies.
- They seek to combine the strengths of both the finest conservatories and the major liberal-arts and research institutions.
- The department not only draws talented and bright students from all over the world to its graduate and undergraduate programs, but also brings to the Rutgers faculty the foremost performing musicians and scholars.