North Carolina Central University

Welcome and thank you for your interest in the NC Central Music Department! Our degrees prepare musicians for professional lives as performers, composers, music educators, conductors, scholars, and music industry professionals, making them competitive for the ever-changing landscape of the music profession.

We offer rigorous Bachelor of Music degrees in Performance, Education, and Industry. Our Master of Music in Jazz Studies is well known throughout the nation and noted as a program of distinction for the university. Music at NC Central is open to music majors and non-majors through participation in the Sound Machine Band or university choirs.