Top Ten Reasons for Choosing NKU Music...

• Northern Kentucky University has the feel of a small town university with the benefits of a culturally diverse metropolitan area.
• In addition, NKU is just 7 miles from the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestras, Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati May Festival Chorus, Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, a half-dozen professional theaters staging national touring and local shows and dozens of live music venues showcasing some of the best jazz, blues, rock, classical, operatic and Broadway musicians in the USA.

• NKU has generous financial awards that are available to deserving and accomplished students. Scholarships range from partial tuition to full tuition and housing.

• NKU offers affordable, individual instruction on your instrument or voice.
• Students here study directly with faculty professionals--not with a teaching assistant.
• In addition, faculty are closely connected with the professional music scene nationally and internationally, while the majority of our adjunct faculty are full-time, professional, musicians. Be sure to review our faculty roster to learn about their accomplishments in the field of music.

• NKU music majors have no trouble finding teaching opportunities. Help develop your resume and earn money at the same time!
• NKU music students are frequently hired to perform at area places of worship, clubs and with professional groups.  The Department also receives numerous requests every year for musicians who can perform at their functions or teach at their schools.

• NKU students have a variety of choices for ensemble experiences in many music genres: ensembles at NKU include Symphonic Winds, Concert Band, Norse Pep Band, Jazz Ensemble, Vocal Jazz ensemble, Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonic Orchestra, Northern Chorale, Chamber Choir, Opera Workshop, Brass Choir, R&B Combo, several Jazz combos, Steel Band and Percussion Ensemble.
• Participation in multiple ensembles is encouraged for majors and non-majors.

• NKU Ensembles tour both nationally and internationally.
  • In fall of 2008, NKU Chamber Choir performed in Korea.
  • In spring of 2008, NKU Symphonic Winds performed in Atlanta.
• There are also study abroad opportunities through the International Studies Department and KIIS (Kentucky Institute of International Studies).
  • Study music in Salzburg, Austria!

• Greaves Concert Hall is one of the finest performance spaces in the region. With 635 seats, and two nine-foot grand pianos, we are able to bring high profile performing groups to campus.
• Our student computer lab is complete with new computers and the latest music software.
  • WiFi is also available anywhere on campus.

• NKU's Department of Music and its great reputation is based on a history of excellence. The Department of Music gives music students special status on campus. We share the Fine Arts Center with the Visual Arts and Theatre program making this a truly arts-enriched environment

• The Department of Music is friendly and supportive. We offer a small class size and more importantly, individual attention.
• We also have music organizations you can become a part of. 
  • Music Fraternities (PMA, SAI)
  • CMENC-Collegiate Music Educators National Conference
  • ACDA-American Choral Directors Association
  • Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band (coed) Fraternity

• Most NKU music graduates become successful teachers and/ or performers and find jobs in the Greater Cincinnati area and beyond.
• Do you wish to pursue master's level study at Eastman, Indiana University, Juilliard, or the San Francisco Conservatory?  Some of our recent graduates have graduates have gone on to do just that.