Program Recognition
•NASM-accredited Department of Music (National Association of Schools of Music)
•Home of the Maynard Ferguson Institute of Jazz Studies, established when Rowan awarded the jazz legend its only honorary doctorate
Training
•Prepares serious jazz and commercial musicians for professional careers in jazz and commercial music
•Private study in jazz improvisation, small jazz ensembles, and a large jazz ensemble, with juries each semester and full junior- and senior-year recitals
•Coursework in jazz composition, arranging, jazz theory, recording techniques, and the business of music
•Faculty of in-demand working professional musicians and educators; annual Jazz Festival
