14 Full-time Master's in Music in South Africa

The Arts in Music degree offered at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg is a postgraduate degree in research. The research can be in musicology or ethnomusicology, but can also include another subdiscipline of academic music studies as long as the research undertaken is of a scholarly nature.

The MMus Music programme at the Stellenbosch University develops research skills by means of either a 100% thesis or a 50% thesis. The latter programme structure includes either public concert performances or compositions.

Music Education from University of Pretoria provides a holistic education, transferable skills, critical thinking, and communication and problem-solving that will help you develop to your full potential.  

Music Technology from University of Pretoria provides a holistic education, transferable skills, critical thinking, and communication and problem-solving that will help you develop to your full potential.  

The Music programme of the University of Cape Town offers training in a range of orchestral instruments, piano, voice, African music and jazz.

Performing Art from University of Pretoria  provides a holistic education, transferable skills, critical thinking, and communication and problem-solving that will help you develop to your full potential.  

The Music Department, which offers the Music Technology programme at the Stellenbosch University, is located in the centre of Stellenbosch University’s beautiful campus, in the heart of the Western Cape’s winelands. Stellenbosch University is committed to providing a quality education through personal attention to students from a wide range of backgrounds.

Composition from University of Pretoria provides a holistic education, transferable skills, critical thinking, and communication and problem-solving that will help you develop to your full potential.  

Music and Musicology is the study of ancient cultures; their art, literature, thought and history. The focus of Classics is the ancient Mediterranean – Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Near East – but our courses also include modules on ancient Africa, India and China. The Classics program of Rhodes University is designed to stimulate, inform, and encourage reflection.

Situated within the attractive garden campus of St Peter’s Chapel at Rhodes University, the Music program of Rhodes University is offered at the Department of Music and Musicology, located in the Beethoven House in Somerset Street, Makhanda (Grahamstown).

The Master of Music offered at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg is a postgraduate degree in creative work and research that can be undertaken full-time or part-time.

Music Therapy from University of Pretoria provides a holistic education, transferable skills, critical thinking, and communication and problem-solving that will help you develop to your full potential.  

Music - Practical Music Study from Stellenbosch University is a professional degree offering specialisation in Practical Music study (Solo voice, Solo instrument, Accompaniment, Chamber Music, and Conducting). 

The Music Department, which offers the Film Music programme at the Stellenbosch University, is located in the centre of Stellenbosch University’s beautiful campus, in the heart of the Western Cape’s winelands. Stellenbosch University is committed to providing a quality education through personal attention to students from a wide range of backgrounds.