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Prospective Student Information
Detailed instructions on how to apply are available by clicking the "How To Apply" link in the left-hand menu bar (under "Prospective Students"). These guidelines explain all required steps for the application process.
Application forms (both paper and online) are available at the Graduate School website. For the most current information on our department’s programs and their requirements, please see the Music Department's Graduate Handbook as well as the relevant websites listed below.
The Graduate School has established January 1 as the deadline in the competition for University-wide fellowships. For this reason, you should have your application, recommendations, scores, and transcripts sent to the Graduate School by that date. This also means that you should take the GRE General Examination in time to have your scores reported before the end of the calendar year.
The Department does not require the GRE Music Examination, but it does administer its own diagnostic test, which you must take for admission. We will send you this three-hour written test when we receive your application. In addition, we require you to submit with your application a sample of recent written work on a musical subject (e.g., a term paper or thesis). We begin considering candidates for admission in early January and will notify successful candidates by the end of March. The Department admits students only for the fall of a given academic year. Please note as well that direct admission to the Ph.D. program requires the equivalent of our M.A. in musicology and is granted on a provisional basis, pending successful completion of our doctoral qualifying examination in the second semester of the first year.
In addition to exploring our websites, we encourage you to visit our campus, meet with faculty and graduate students, and learn about our program first-hand. We especially encourage your coming to campus on Friday-Saturday, January 11-12, 2008, when our department will host seminars and receptions for prospective students. You may also take our required diagnostic exams for history and theory during this visit.
Our faculty would also be happy to visit with you during our reception at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society on Friday, November 2, 2007, 5:30-7:30. Please email Professor John Nádas (jancsi@isis.unc.edu) for information about this event.
Should you have any questions about our program or the application process, please feel free to write me (sevneff@aol.com) or call (919/962-1039). We appreciate your interest in our department.
Yours sincerely,
Severine Neff
Eugene Falk Distinguished Professor
Director of Graduate Admissions
Departmental Contact Information:
Department of Music
CB#3320 Hill Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3320
phone: 919-962-1039
fax: 919-962-3376
UNC Graduate School Homepage:
Prospective Student Graduate School Information
http://gradschool.unc.edu/students_prospective.html (including links to online graduate school application)
Questions about Graduate School Applications: contact Cheryl Thomas, Director of Admissions and Enrolled Student Services, cheryl_thomas@unc.edu
Information about North Carolina Residency for Tuition Purposes: http://gradschool.unc.edu/residency/index.html (For questions about North Carolina residency, please contact Trish Bunn, tbunn@unc.edu.)
Music Department Faculty in Musicology:
Musicology Faculty (includes links to their publication lists)
Music Library:
UNC Music Library (53,500 books, 81,000 scores, 11,600 microfilms, 41,000 recordings [audio and video])
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