Undergraduate courses and admission

This group of specialist degrees is the flagship of the Conservatorium’s tertiary programs. Begin your musical career as a performer, a composer, or as a professional educator.

• Bachelor of Music (Performance)
  
• Bachelor of Music (Composition)
• Bachelor of Music (Music Education)

Performance principal study areas available in Classical Performance, Chinese Instrumental Performance, Drum Set, Historical Performance, Jazz, and Music Theatre.

Combine your chosen principal study with interests from a wide range of interdisciplinary areas in Arts and Social Sciences, Business and Commerce, Engineering, and more. The five-year Performance or Composition combined degree offers flexibility to pursue multiple subject areas, allowing you to stretch your skills beyond music.

• Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Advanced Studies (Composition)
• Bachelor of Music and Bachelor of Advanced Studies (Performance)

Be a part of the next generation in popular music, film, and television, or in the media and tech industry, or gain expertise in understanding how and why music is made by working with innovative musicology researchers – you choose your path by specialising in one of four Bachelor of Music programs.

• Bachelor of Music:
  • Contemporary Music Practice
  • Composition for Creative Industries
    
  • Digital Music Composition
  • Musicology

Delve into broad studies of society, culture and performance by taking the Music Major as part of a Bachelor of Arts degree. A BA majoring in Music provides breadth to choose subjects from across a wide range of disciplines, including music electives taught at the Conservatorium and the University's Camperdown Campus.

• Bachelor of Arts (Music Major)

Begin your musical journey that leads to Bachelor entry or upskill at a high level with a two-year Diploma of Music course. Often used as a gateway to a Bachelor of Music degree, the Diploma of Music is also available as a standalone specialist program in Composition, Composition for Creative Industries, Contemporary Music Practice, Digital Music & Media and Performance.

• Diploma of Music

Entry to the Diploma of Music is via a Bachelor of Music application and audition/portfolio submission.

1. Apply
2. Register audition and interview
3. Check email for a confirmation of your audition or interview

Auditions and interviews are held twice a year, July and September (the first week of the NSW School holidays). Some areas, such as Music Theatre, Jazz, Drum Set, will normally be held in only September. Check the schedule of dates in the table below.

To learn about the audition process, requirements, and specific dates, read the Undergraduate Audition Guide:

Domestic students* undertaking a recognised Year 12 qualification (such as the NSW Higher School Certificate) who are applying to one of the courses listed below will automatically be considered for an early unconditional offer through the Creative Arts Special Admission Scheme (CASAS):

1. Bachelor of Music
   
2. Bachelor of Music (Composition)
   
3. Bachelor of Music (Performance)

• No additional application is needed
• You must submit your UAC application by the relevant UAC round deadlines
• You need to pass the audition requirement to be eligible to receive an early offer
• Predicted ATAR data will be obtained through UAC.
  

*Domestic student is an Australian or New Zealand citizen (including dual citizens), Australian permanent resident or a permanent Australian humanitarian visa holder.

Domestic students* undertaking a recognised Year 12 qualification who are applying to one of the courses listed below will automatically be considered for an early unconditional offer through the Creative Arts Special Admission Scheme (CASAS):

1. Bachelor of Music
   
2. Bachelor of Music (Composition)
   
3. Bachelor of Music (Performance)

• No additional application is needed
• Please upload evidence of year 11 and year 12 results to date in the audition portal (acceptd) as part of your audition application
• You must submit your UAC application by the relevant UAC round deadlines
• You need to pass the audition requirement to be eligible to receive an early offer
• Predicted ATAR data will be obtained through UAC.

*Domestic student is an Australian or New Zealand citizen (including dual citizens), Australian permanent resident or a permanent Australian humanitarian visa holder.

Otherwise phrased as a post-school applicant. You are a post-school applicant if you:

• have never attempted an Australian Year 12 qualification
• completed an Australian Year 12 qualification in a previous year to the current one
• completed an International Baccalaureate (IB) in a previous year to the current one

Follow the steps in the ‘How to apply’ section above to make a UAC application. It is important to provide details of previous study to UAC in your application, including all completed secondary (High School) studies, and complete or incomplete tertiary study. Visit UAC for more information.

1. Apply
2. Register audition and interview
3. Check email for a confirmation of your audition and interview.

If applying directly to the University of Sydney, please make sure you provide your student number or a valid IPU number in your audition application.

1. Make an internal course application (between 1 April-30 Nov)
   
2. Register audition and interview
3. Check email for a confirmation of your audition and interview.

This process also applies to Sydney Conservatorium of Music students.

The Creative Arts Special Admissions Scheme offers talented Year 12 students a chance to receive an early offer to study music based on their audition and academic performance in Year 11 and 12 so far, prior to getting an ATAR. Find out more.