Musicology

Purpose of the Program

The main purpose of this program is to educate respectable scientists in the field of music science and inside of a structure using contemporary education techniques; who has leadership characteristics as a music researcher, who’s able to transmit our country and world’s cultural variability to forthcoming generations, who’s able to create new synthesis with an interdisciplinary approach.

Musicology is the scientific approach to music and it is a field which is based on research and collection of scientific data. It is the explanation of not only musical experience and values; but also everything inside of a society which is known and thought about those values should be based on a research inside of a discipline with scientific methods. Musicology discipline consists of subdisciplines such as historical musicology, systematic musicology, folklore, ethnomusicology and popular music. Furthermore one of the main characteristics of musicology is that is has an interdisciplinary identity. One of the focus points is to understand society through music with the aid and collaboration of sociology, anthropology, politics, linguistics, psychology, philosophy, physics, mathematic and so, and to draw consequences on music, culture and identity.

Structure of the Program

* This program gives education under the Musicology and Music Theory Department. The education is 4 semesters with one of them is scientific preparation. Each semester is 14 weeks class and one week final, and 15 weeks at total. The duration of the program is parallel with other Social Sciences Institute programs.

* In the Musicology Master of Arts program, a student has to take 24 credits; 12 credits from elective courses and 12 credits from compulsory courses. The courses on Scientific Preparation semester is non-credit. First semester is Scientific Preparation and a student has to take 4 courses and pass from those.

* Student who is accepted to department can start to courses with the approval of his/her advisor, after passing the English exam. The language of the program is Turkish. A student has to take English courses with a density of 30%. The students can take the 50% of the credit from their own program. For the rest 50% of the courses, the student can choose from Social Sciences Institute’s other programs, or M.A. or PhD programs of other universities, with the approval of their advisor.

* The evaluation of the grades is based on ITU Undergraduate Grading System.

1. Applicant’s official transcripts including all undergraduate and/or graduate level courses and their grades issued by the universities that the applicant graduated or will be graduated from.
   
   Applicantwho will apply for PhD programs afterhis/her undergraduate degree has to have at least 3.0 Cumulative GPA out of 4.00 .
2. One of the Score Documents from Academic Personnel and Graduate Level Entrance Exam (ALES), GRE or GMAT including the related scores (ALES, GRE and GMAT scores are valid for 5 years.)
   
   Applicants for Master's Programs are required to have Numerical score minimum 55 from ALES . Applicantswho will apply for PhD programs aftertheirundergraduate level degree arerequiredto have Numerical scoreminimum 80FROM ALES (ALES minimum score is not required for the Social Sciences Institute Music programs)
   
   The minimum score required from Quantitative section of GRE is 610 (in the new system is minimum 149).
   
   Applicants for Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences Programs can apply with GMAT certificate. GMATwitha minimum score of 450is required for these applicants.
3. One of the Documents of English Proficiency that is accepted according to ITU Senate principles.

English Proficiency Documentsand the required minimum scores are given at the table below:
MASTER’S PROGRAMSAPPLICATION	PhD PROGRAMS APPLICATION
Exam	Min.Score	Exam	Min.Score
İTÜ English Proficieny Exam	65	-	-
YÖK Language Exam	65	YÖK Language Exam	65
TOEFL (Paper Based)	523	TOEFL (Paper Based)	523
TOEFL (Computer Based)	183	TOEFL (Computer Based)	183
TOEFL (Internet Based)	70	TOEFL (Internet Based)	70
e-YDS	65	e-YDS	65
YDS	65	YDS	65
ÜDS	65	ÜDS	65
KPDS	65	KPDS	65
PTE (Academic)	60	PTE (Academic)	60

TOEFL IBT/PBT,PTE, İTU English Proficiency Exam valid for 2 years.
ÜDS,KPDS,YDS, e-YDS test results are valid for 5 years . TOEFL ITP is not accepted.

English certificate is not mandatory in the Master applications.
The students admitted to any master program can complete their registration without an English certificate, but they cannot take courses until the submission of a valid English certificate. The applicants for a PhD program must deliver English certificate up to the registration period. If they do not submit a valid English certificate in the registration, they will not be registered.

ABOUT TOEFL IBT EXAM
Inaccordance with the decision taken at the meeting of ITU University Board of Directors dated 15.12.2011 and numbered 914 ; dating from the fall semester of the 2012-2013 academic year, IfTOEFL and IBT test results are from the testing centers in Turkey ,only the results from the exams conducted in the centers in state and private universities are accepted by ITU. TOEFL home edition can be used due to the pandemic.

4. Statement of Purpose
5. Curriculum Vitae
6. Recommendation Letter
   
   For each applied program two recommendation letters are required.For MSc applications, oneof these recommendation letters is required to be prepared by an academic instructor who the student worked with. For PhD applications, one of the recommendation letters must be supplied from the supervisor that the candidatesare planning to study together during their doctorate education.
   Reference letter is uploaded to the system by the person who is giving the reference, not by the candidate
   P.S. 1:Required ALES, GRE, GMAT minimum scores and minimum cummulative GPA may differ according to Master’s and Ph.D. programs . Requirements for programs and quotas are given at the Registar’s Office Web page :https://www.sis.itu.edu.tr/