Bachelor in Music (Bachelor's)

For Bachelor in Music (Bachelor's), tuition is Tuition for the 2024-2025 academic year is $55,800..

The Music programme at Eckerd College is offered as a major, minor, or for personal enrichment. It combines academic study with performance opportunities in ensembles open to all students. Courses cover music theory, composition, production, and global music traditions. Students engage in hands-on learning through private lessons, ensemble participation, and independent studies.

Focus areas include Music Theory, Composition, Music Production, World Music, Jazz, Sound Design.

The programme requires a total of 120 credits, including coursework in music theory, performance, and liberal arts. Students complete private lessons, ensemble participation, and may pursue independent studies or interdisciplinary projects.

Graduates work as composers, music teachers, recording engineers, arts managers, and music production technicians.

Applicants must submit a high school transcript and standardized test scores. A placement audition is required for ensemble participation. Additional materials may be requested for music majors.

The programme totals about 120 credit hours. On-campus, full-time or part-time, typically four years. For international students, tuition is well above the median for US programmes. The institution admits about 79% of applicants.

Eckerd College is a liberal arts college in St. Petersburg, Florida, with academic pathways that lead graduates into medicine, law, marine science and other fields. Students have worked with organizations including NASA, NOAA, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, Boeing Intelligence & Analytics, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute and Raymond James Financial. Students have also co-authored research on gopher tortoises in scientific journals. Ninety percent of graduates earn their degree in four years or fewer, and 94% are employed or pursuing advanced degrees within one year of graduation.

The college’s waterfront campus is home to 1,800 students from across the United States and around the world. St. Petersburg sits on Florida’s Gulf Coast, with seven beaches nearby and an average year-round temperature of 75 degrees. Some residence halls have ocean views, and most are pet-friendly. The city also offers access to technology jobs and a strong work-life balance.

International students can ease into college through Autumn Term, a three-week orientation that introduces college life and helps students plan their studies. Each student receives support from a personal faculty mentor. Eckerd offers faculty-led study abroad programmes, a semester at its study centre in London and about 300 destinations each year, giving students several ways to add international experience to their degree.