Bachelor of Arts/Master of Music

The Bachelor of Arts/Master of Music program is designed for instrumentalists with outstanding abilities in performance who are also interested in a liberal arts education. Admission to the B.A./M.M. program is through acceptance into Yale College as well as a separate, successful audition through the School of Music, either before matriculation into Yale College or during the third year of the B.A. program. B.A./M.M. students usually complete requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree in their first four years and for the Master of Music degree after one year of the Master of Music program in the School of Music (year five). By the end of the fifth year, all students participating in the B.A./M.M. program must have met the School of Music's standard in Analysis and Musicianship and in Music History either through testing or through course work, they must also have completed the School of Music's keyboard proficiency requirement and nonperformance course distribution requirement. To ensure this, candidates admitted to the B.A./M.M. program are required to sit for placement examinations in the School of Music at the beginning of their senior year (year four), they must also meet with both the deputy dean for academics and the coordinator for academic studies at the beginning of each term in the program for advising regarding performance activities and academic course work.

Request recommendations from two teachers who have taught you in core academic subjects (e.g. English, Foreign Language, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies) who know you well, and who have seen you at your best. It is preferable, but not required, that recommendations come from teachers who have taught you during your final or next-to-final year of secondary school. Your counselor or other school official should submit a School Report with an official transcript that includes all your secondary school courses. If a question on the School Report form is not applicable to your secondary school, leave it blank. In response to the extraordinary circumstances associated with the pandemic, Yale is temporarily suspending its requirement that first-year and transfer applicants submit results from the ACT or SAT. The change will be in effect during the 2020-21 and 2021-22 admissions cycles for applicants who intend to matriculate in fall 2021 or fall 2022. 100 on the internet-based TOEFL. 25 on each of the three sections of the paper-and-pencil TOEFL Paper-delivered Test. IELTS scores of 7.