Degree and Diploma Programs

Degree Programs

The Peabody Conservatory awards five degrees:

• The Bachelor of Music (BM):
  Performance (including Composition, Computer Music, and Music for New Media), Recording Arts, and Music Education
• The Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA): Dance
• The Master of Music (MM):
  Performance (including Composition, Computer Music, Orchestral Conducting, and Wind Conducting), Performance-Pedagogy, Music Education, Musicology, and Music Theory Pedagogy
• The Master of Arts (MA) in Audio Sciences:
  Acoustics and Recording Arts and Sciences
• The Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA):
  ​Performance (including Composition, Orchestral Conducting, and Wind Conducting).

Diploma Programs

The Peabody Conservatory also awards three diplomas which are certificates:

• The Performer’s Certificate (PC)
• The Graduate Performance Diploma (GPD)
• The Artist’s Diploma (AD)

Peabody collaborates with the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering to administer an undergraduate double-degree. However, for the purposes of the Peabody catalogue, this degree may be regarded as a modified BM or BFA degree.

Degree and Diploma Programs