Master of Music Education

Advance your teaching career through the Master of Music Education (MME) degree program at Lebanon Valley College. 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, Pa. With six terms per year, the program is flexible to fit your scheduling needs. Ask us about employer discounts and discounts for PA Commonwealth employees and dependents.

Next start date: March 9, 2026

Lebanon Valley College is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), 11250 Roger Bacon Drive, Suite 21, Reston, VA 20190-5248; Telephone: 703-437-0700, info@arts-accredit.org

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Through LVC’s Master of Music Education, you’ll enhance your ability to use technology, performance, improvisation, and composition to engage your students. The MME will expand your knowledge and teaching pedagogies to create a learning environment that promotes inclusivity in a student-centered classroom.

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33 credits

$734

2025–26 cost per credit hour

Online

format + 2-week residency

start dates per year

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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. We have long been known for offering hallmark programs in education and music education. Our dedicated alumni teach and lead in many school districts in 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—Modern Band: Composition and Performance Ensemble—also gives you the exciting opportunity to expand upon the proficiencies and methods learned in an ensemble setting through collaborative composition and improvisation. The cumulating experience will be a live concert promoting the pedagogies for 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. This means you will skip the basics and take an advanced curriculum.

Graduate Music Education Certificates

As part of completing your Master of Music Education, you can earn your Modern Band Certificate or Ensemble Leadership Certificate.

The courses in our Modern Band Certificate and Ensemble Leadership Certificate programs qualify for the Act 48 Continuing Education Credits towards professional development.

Ensemble Leadership Certificate

Modern Band Certificate

Professional Development for Educators

In Their Words

Preparation

I was a section leader in The Pride of The Valley 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’t 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