Music Theory and Composition Colleges

A program that focuses on the study of the principles of sound manipulation as applied to the creation of music, and the techniques of creating and arranging music. Includes instruction in aural theory, melody, counterpoint, complex harmony, modulation, chromatics, improvisation, progressions, musical writing, instrumentation, orchestration, electronic and computer applications, studies of specific musical styles, and development of original creative ability.

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All Music Theory and Composition Colleges

School Scholarships Available
Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ 219 scholarships
Ashland University in Ashland, OH 18 scholarships
Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, OH 8 scholarships
Baylor University in Waco, TX 23 scholarships
Belmont University in Nashville, TN 12 scholarships
Bennington College in Bennington, VT 1 scholarships
Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA 87 scholarships
Biola University in La Mirada, CA 11 scholarships
Birmingham Southern College in Birmingham, AL 20 scholarships
Blinn College in Brenham, TX No scholarships
Boise State University in Boise, ID 56 scholarships
Boston University in Boston, MA 33 scholarships
Bowling Green State University-Main Campus in Bowling Green, OH 495 scholarships
Bradley University in Peoria, IL 12 scholarships
Brandeis University in Waltham, MA 16 scholarships
Brigham Young University-Provo in Provo, UT 3 scholarships
Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA 6 scholarships
Butler University in Indianapolis, IN 6 scholarships
California Baptist University in Riverside, CA 10 scholarships
California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, CA 1 scholarships
Campbell University in Buies Creek, NC 5 scholarships
Capital University in Columbus, OH 12 scholarships
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA 8 scholarships
Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, TN 18 scholarships
Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH 22 scholarships
Catholic University of America in Washington, DC 8 scholarships
Cedar Valley College in Lancaster, TX No scholarships
Cedarville University in Cedarville, OH 38 scholarships
Centenary College of Louisiana in Shreveport, LA 12 scholarships
Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant, MI 21 scholarships
Chapman University in Orange, CA 17 scholarships
Columbia University in the City of New York in New York, NY 4 scholarships
Concordia College at Moorhead in Moorhead, MN 16 scholarships
Converse College in Spartanburg, SC 13 scholarships
Cornell University in Ithaca, NY 5 scholarships
CUNY Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, NY 1 scholarships
CUNY Graduate School and University Center in New York, NY 1 scholarships
Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, PA 1 scholarships
Dallas Baptist University in Dallas, TX 13 scholarships
Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, TX No scholarships
DePaul University in Chicago, IL 15 scholarships
Dillard University in New Orleans, LA 10 scholarships
Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA 15 scholarships
East Carolina University in Greenville, NC 15 scholarships
Eastern Washington University in Cheney, WA 80 scholarships
Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, IL 13 scholarships
Florida Southern College in Lakeland, FL 21 scholarships
Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL 18 scholarships
Furman University in Greenville, SC 17 scholarships
Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, NC 12 scholarships
Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA 85 scholarships
Glendale Community College - Arizona in Glendale, AZ No scholarships
Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, TX 10 scholarships
Hope College in Holland, MI 8 scholarships
Houghton College in Houghton, NY 19 scholarships
Houston Baptist University in Houston, TX 7 scholarships
Houston Community College in Houston, TX No scholarships
Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington, IL 3 scholarships
Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, IN 22 scholarships
Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY 15 scholarships
Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, FL 12 scholarships
Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD 1 scholarships
Kent State University at Kent in Kent, OH 112 scholarships
Lawrence University in Appleton, WI 7 scholarships
Lindenwood University in Saint Charles, MO No scholarships
Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN 6 scholarships
Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA 1 scholarships
Loyola University-New Orleans in New Orleans, LA 6 scholarships
Lynn University in Boca Raton, FL 6 scholarships
Madonna University in Livonia, MI 4 scholarships
Manhattan School of Music in New York, NY 3 scholarships
Marylhurst University in Marylhurst, OR 45 scholarships
Maryville College in Maryville, TN 6 scholarships
McLennan Community College in Waco, TX No scholarships
Mesa Community College in Mesa, AZ No scholarships
Michigan State University in East Lansing, MI 1519 scholarships
Mills College in Oakland, CA 11 scholarships
Mississippi College in Clinton, MS 32 scholarships
Nazareth College in Rochester, NY 18 scholarships
New York University in New York, NY 16 scholarships
Newberry College in Newberry, SC 12 scholarships
Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ 91 scholarships
Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, ID 5 scholarships
Northwest University in Kirkland, WA 14 scholarships
Northwestern College - Minnesota in Saint Paul, MN 13 scholarships
Northwestern University in Evanston, IL 1 scholarships
Nyack College in Nyack, NY 30 scholarships
Oakland Community College in Bloomfield Hills, MI No scholarships
Oakland University in Rochester Hills, MI 139 scholarships
Oakwood University in Huntsville, AL 2 scholarships
Oberlin College in Oberlin, OH No scholarships
Ohio Northern University in Ada, OH 11 scholarships
Ohio University-Main Campus in Athens, OH 763 scholarships
Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, OK 18 scholarships
Oklahoma City University in Oklahoma City, OK 13 scholarships
Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, IL 3 scholarships
Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK 11 scholarships
Palm Beach Atlantic University-West Palm Beach in West Palm Beach, FL 15 scholarships
Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA 8 scholarships
Phoenix College in Phoenix, AZ No scholarships
Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, CA 136 scholarships
Portland State University in Portland, OR 229 scholarships
Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ 20 scholarships
Roosevelt University in Chicago, IL 4 scholarships
Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ 156 scholarships
San Francisco Conservatory of Music in San Francisco, CA 1 scholarships
Scottsdale Community College in Scottsdale, AZ No scholarships
Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA 7 scholarships
Southern Adventist University in Collegedale, TN 19 scholarships
Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX 25 scholarships
Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX 16 scholarships
St Olaf College in Northfield, MN 6 scholarships
Stanford University in Stanford, CA 1 scholarships
Stetson University in DeLand, FL 2 scholarships
SUNY at Fredonia in Fredonia, NY 284 scholarships
SUNY at Purchase College in Purchase, NY 1 scholarships
SUNY College at Potsdam in Potsdam, NY 13 scholarships
Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, PA 15 scholarships
Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY 7 scholarships
Temple University in Philadelphia, PA 92 scholarships
Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, TX 40 scholarships
Texas Tech University in Lubbock, TX 18 scholarships
The College of Wooster in Wooster, OH 6 scholarships
The Juilliard School in New York, NY 1 scholarships
The New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, MA 2 scholarships
The New School in New York, NY 3 scholarships
The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH 265 scholarships
The University of Montana in Missoula, MT 70 scholarships
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Greensboro, NC 308 scholarships
The University of Texas at Austin in Austin, TX 166 scholarships
The University of Texas at El Paso in El Paso, TX 9 scholarships
The University of Texas at San Antonio in San Antonio, TX 260 scholarships
The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA 2 scholarships
Trinity University in San Antonio, TX 12 scholarships
Union University in Jackson, TN 18 scholarships
University at Buffalo in Buffalo, NY 14 scholarships
University of Akron Main Campus in Akron, OH 540 scholarships
University of California-Santa Barbara in Santa Barbara, CA 2 scholarships
University of California-Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, CA 6 scholarships
University of Cincinnati-Main Campus in Cincinnati, OH 42 scholarships
University of Dayton in Dayton, OH 8 scholarships
University of Delaware in Newark, DE 4 scholarships
University of Georgia in Athens, GA 26 scholarships
University of Houston in Houston, TX 48 scholarships
University of Idaho in Moscow, ID 848 scholarships
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Champaign, IL 876 scholarships
University of Miami in Coral Gables, FL 156 scholarships
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in Ann Arbor, MI 53 scholarships
University of Minnesota-Duluth in Duluth, MN 42 scholarships
University of Missouri-Kansas City in Kansas City, MO 127 scholarships
University of Nebraska at Omaha in Omaha, NE 97 scholarships
University of North Texas in Denton, TX 78 scholarships
University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, IA 198 scholarships
University of Oregon in Eugene, OR 506 scholarships
University of Redlands in Redlands, CA 7 scholarships
University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI 600 scholarships
University of Rochester in Rochester, NY 41 scholarships
University of South Carolina-Columbia in Columbia, SC 752 scholarships
University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA 24 scholarships
University of Southern Maine in Portland, ME 18 scholarships
University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA 78 scholarships
University of Tulsa in Tulsa, OK 14 scholarships
University of Washington-Seattle Campus in Seattle, WA 19 scholarships
Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, IN 10 scholarships
Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN 4 scholarships
Washington State University in Pullman, WA 4 scholarships
Webster University in Saint Louis, MO 31 scholarships
West Texas A & M University in Canyon, TX 452 scholarships
Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, CT 92 scholarships
Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI 391 scholarships
Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA 4 scholarships
Westminster College - Pennsylvania in New Wilmington, PA 3 scholarships
Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL 9 scholarships
Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA 11 scholarships
Wilberforce University in Wilberforce, OH 11 scholarships
Willamette University in Salem, OR 18 scholarships
William Jewell College in Liberty, MO 11 scholarships
Youngstown State University in Youngstown, OH 391 scholarships