Explore your love of music with a Bachelor of Music at VU, and prepare for a range of exciting careers.
This course focuses on popular and contemporary music, including international perspectives. You’ll develop your music knowledge, technical fluency, and creativity. Through practice, cultural analysis, and critical listening, you’ll discover an inspiring variety of musical styles.
Areas of study include:
- music performance
- music theory
- songwriting and arranging
- popular music culture and history
- music technology.
Considered one of the best live music cities in the world(external link), Melbourne offers a range of performance opportunities. Alongside your collaborative projects with other VU students, you'll have the chance to work with some of the city's industry professionals and community organizations.
You’ll also have access to cutting-edge music technology and our commercial recording facilities at Kindred Studios(external link).
All students should be able to read music notation. If you’ve studied music performance or worked as a musician, you may be eligible for advanced standing, and credits towards your degree.
You’ll have the exciting opportunity to travel as part of your study, on a university exchange or overseas study tour.
We have partnerships with the Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland, Belmont University in Nashville USA, and Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico, among others.
We also offer study tours to Asia each year – past tours have included China, Indonesia, and India.
Studying overseas gives you the chance to experience a new culture and learn from a new perspective – while gaining credits towards your degree.
