Master of Music Education Programs

Master of Music Education

Advance your teaching career while strengthening your expertise as a music educator, ensemble leader, and advocate for student success. Lebanon 芭乐视频官网 College's Master of Music Education (MME) program combines professional growth with practical application to help music educators expand their impact in classrooms, rehearsal spaces, and performance settings.

Choose the Ensemble Leadership or Online Band Certificate as part of your degree. You'll take online courses in seven-week terms and complete a two-week summer residency on campus in Annville, Pennsylvania. With six terms per year, the program is designed to fit the schedules of working educators. Ask us about employer discounts and discounts for PA Commonwealth employees and dependents.

Next start date: July 1, 2026

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Through LVC’s Master of Music Education, you’ll strengthen your ability to use technology, performance, improvisation, and composition to engage and inspire students. The MME expands your instructional expertise and teaching strategies while helping you create inclusive, student-centered learning environments that support meaningful musical growth.

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33 credits

$734

2025鈥�26 cost per credit hour

Online

format + 2-week residency

start dates per year

Master of Music Education student Sarah Benson plays guitar

The Master of Music Education Experience

No matter where you are in your teaching career, our MME degree program will meet your needs by presenting new approaches for teaching diverse student groups, global perspectives in music education, and contemporary pedagogies. You’ll strengthen your instructional expertise while exploring innovative approaches that can enhance student engagement and musical growth. We have long been known for offering hallmark programs in education and music education. Our dedicated alumni teach and lead in many school districts throughout our region.

Experiential Courses

You can immediately apply what you learn in the online music education courses to your classroom. Our Modern Band Certificate capstone鈥擬odern Band: Composition and Performance Ensemble鈥攁lso gives you the exciting opportunity to expand upon the proficiencies and methods learned in an ensemble setting through collaborative composition and improvisation. The culminating experience will be a live concert that demonstrates and reinforces the pedagogies of a modern band curriculum.

Relevant to Working Teachers

Our Master of Music Education online courses and summer residency are designed to help current educators strengthen their skills and take coursework not traditionally offered in undergraduate programs. Rather than revisiting foundational concepts, you’ll focus on advanced topics that support professional growth, instructional leadership, and contemporary music education practice.

Graduate Music Education Certificates

As part of completing your Master of Music Education, you can earn your Modern Band Certificate or Ensemble Leadership Certificate, allowing you to develop specialized expertise while advancing your graduate degree. The courses in our Modern Band Certificate and Ensemble Leadership Certificate programs qualify for Act 48 Continuing Education Credits that support ongoing professional development for educators. Whether your interests focus on ensemble leadership, contemporary music instruction, or expanding student engagement through new teaching approaches, these certificate pathways provide practical skills that can be applied directly in music classrooms and rehearsal settings.

Ensemble Leadership Certificate

Modern Band Certificate

Professional Development for Educators

In Their Words

Preparation

I was a section leader in The Pride of The 芭乐视频官网 Marching Band with Dr. Heffner. I conducted the pit orchestra for Wig and Buckle Theater, performed in flute ensemble, jazz band, symphonic band, orchestra, and concert choir. I even had a radio show for a semester. I signed up for anything that would give me the knowledge and skills to better teach students.

Katy Brodhead ’10, Supervisor of Visual and Performing Arts at Newark Public Schools

Community

Our music education program consists of individuals that care deeply about the community of the program. Our students aren鈥檛 just studying music education at LVC, they are in a learning community that helps and cares for one another in their music education classes, ensembles, and all throughout campus.

Dr. Kyle Zeuch, Director of Choral Activities and assistant professor of music