Music Education Programme started providing Master’s Education with 6 students under the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences in 1985. After the graduates of 1988, it did not receive any students for a while and continued its operation by being a part of the Graduate School of Social Sciences in 1995. It has been providing education continuously since then. Over 40 students have graduated from the Master’s Programme up to now and the same number of studies has been added to the literature.
After Music Education and Fine Arts Departments were reunited and named as Fine Arts Education Department within the scope of reconstruction practices for Faculties of Education in 1998, it was modified to be a programme, and it has been serving as Fine Arts Education Department Music Education Programme since then. Following the establishment of Uludağ University Graduate School of Educational Sciences by YÖK in 2010, Music Education Master’s Programme has also been under the roof of Graduate School of Educational Sciences as all of the other programmes in the Faculty of Education.
Doctoral programs are carried out from 2013 in Music Education Department where the Master’s Programme has been available for a long time.

Fine Arts Education Department Music Education Programme provides education (Doctoral Program: 240 ECTS) in the subject area of Music Education in postgraduate education. The candidates that meet the programme requirements and complete it successfully receive a Doktor’s degree in Music Education.

Third Cycle

The candidates that wish to take the exam to enter into Fine Arts Education Department Music Education Programme must have a master’s degree in the field of Music (Faculty of Education, State Conservatory, and Faculty of Fine Arts/Music). Also taking Postgraduate entrance exam (ALES) and foreign language exam and getting the required scores are required.

The provisions in “Regulation on Transfer among Associate and Undergraduate Degree Programs, Double Major, and Subspecialty and the Principals of Credit Transfer among Institutions in Higher Education Institutions” are applied.

PhD degree in Music Education are awarded to those who has taken courses in Music Education PhD Programme, not being less than 240 ECTS, and completed all of them successfully, conducted seminar studies, got a general point average of 75 out of 100 and defended his/her thesis before a jury successfully.

Music Education PhD Programme which is provided within the context of postgraduate education is reviewed and assessed in May each year and it enters into force upon the approval of the University Senate. It is noticed that the courses within the programme have their counterparts at national and international level. Among the students attending their postgraduate education, those having required scores in ALES and foreign language exam are entitled to take Research Assistant exam and they are included in the staff of the Graduate School.
The goal of the programme is to educate researchers who are equipped with the content knowledge, competent in scientific research methods and techniques, and who can identify the problems of the field, doing research with an appropriate method offer solutions to them.