Bachelor of Music - Music: General Studies

About this programme

Get a post-graduate work permit for up to three years if you are a full-time UBC international student graduating from a bachelor’s degree program and meet all eligibility criteria . Music: General Studies is designed to provide a broad, flexible, and general higher education in music, including private lessons on the instrument that you play best. You’ll have the freedom to choose many elective courses, allowing continuation into various professional options, including graduate degrees. Students admitted to the Bachelor of Music program may follow one of four streams: General Studies, Advanced Performance, Scholarship, or Composition. Every stream includes four years of private lessons in an instrument or voice, along with ensemble performance (4 years), music scholarship (3 years), and non-music electives (4 years). The distribution of required and elective courses, in Music and in other subjects, is different for each stream. General Studies is designed to provide a broad, flexible, general higher education in music, including private lessons on the instrument the student plays best. Most undergraduates admitted to the School of Music are eligible to enrol in this program. In General Studies, you may select from three streams: The School of Music offers cutting-edge performance facilities like the Gessler Multimedia Teaching Studio and the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, named one of the world’s greatest concert halls. There are hundreds of courses you can take within Music: General Studies. Here are a few you might like.