Bachelor (Honours)
This course provides outstanding music students with an introduction to research, whilst also focusing on advanced professional and practical skills.
The course prepares students for entry into the music profession as highly-skilled elite performers with a profound understanding of their art form. It also offers a stepping stone to further postgraduate study in music. Specialisations include classical performance, jazz performance, contemporary music, composition, screen composition, music technology, or musicology.
The course is supported by a large staff of educators and scholar/performers whose expertise spans the entire music industry.
Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) level
This course has been accredited by ECU as an AQF Level 8 Bachelor Honours Degree Award.
This course provides outstanding music students with an introduction to research, whilst also focusing on advanced professional and practical skills.
The course prepares students for entry into the music profession as highly-skilled elite performers with a profound understanding of their art form. It also offers a stepping stone to further postgraduate study in music. Specialisations include classical performance, jazz performance, contemporary music, composition, screen composition, music technology, or musicology.
The course is supported by a large staff of educators and scholar/performers whose expertise spans the entire music industry.
Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) level
This course has been accredited by ECU as an AQF Level 8 Bachelor Honours Degree Award.
Admission requirements you'll need to meet for this course.
The following course-specific admission requirements are mandatory and must be satisfied by all applicants. These requirements are in addition to or supersede the minimum requirements outlined within the Academic admission requirements band section below.
All applicants are required to attend an audition. The audition may contain an interview component. Additionally applicants must have completed a Bachelor of Music, with equivalents considered. Alternatively applicants can have completed three years of a four year Bachelor of Music, and are normally expected to have maintained a course Weighted Average Mark of 70 or over, plus marks of 70 or over in all Principal Studies units, and marks of 70 or over in all Music History units.
For more information, including guidelines for specific disciplines, please see our Interviews, folios and auditions web page.
All applicants must meet the academic admission requirements for this course. The indicative or guaranteed ATAR is as published (where applicable) or academic admission requirements may be satisfied through completion of one of the following:
For international students, requirements include your secondary school results.
English competency requirements may be satisfied through completion of one of the following:
* Further information can be found on the Study course entry page.
Applications for this course are not accepted through ECU's Experience Based Entry Scheme.
BMus (Honours) graduates regularly gain employment with education institutions, arts-based companies (WASO, AMEB, Musica Viva). It is expected that this trend will continue with the new course, continuing to give graduates the skills to ensure they are highly sought after in Industry. Graduates are likely to enter the local, national and international performing arts industries as performers and key arts workers in roles such as marketing and communication, producing and artistic direction. Affiliated industries are in education, policy and government positions (such as Australia Council) and health.
Possible future job titlesPerformer, musician, jazz, classical, composition, contemporary music, researcher, arts, government, education
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