Country:
INDIA
State:
MAHARASHTRA
City:
MUMBAI (formerly BOMBAY)
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Institutions for Women Only, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Music Therapy, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The university was founded in 1916, and was a landmark in the provision of higher education for women in India. It operates on four campuses, with music being taught at Churchgate and Pune. The Department of Music organises national seminars in music and music research. Languages of instruction are ...
Country:
INDIA
State:
RAJASTHAN
City:
RAJASTHAN
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This women-only University was founded as a College in 1935 and the music department was established in 1943. The institution gained university status in 1983. There are departments of drawing, painting, textile design and music. Languages of instruction are Hindi and English. There are attached pri...
Country:
INDIA
State:
TAMIL NADU
City:
KODAIKANAL
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University was founded in 1984 and is exclusively for women. Music programs are offered through constitutent and affiliated colleges: • Sri Adi ChunjanagiriArts andScience College for women, at Cumbum. • Arulmigu Palaniyandavar Arts College for women, in Palani. • Nadar Saraswathi College...
Country:
INDIA
State:
TAMIL NADU
City:
CHENNAI (formerly MADRAS)
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
Queen Mary’s is an autonomous government-run Science College for Women affiliated with the University of Madras. Founded in 1914, it is one of the oldest education institutions in Chennai. Some tuition is offered through distance mode....
Country:
INDIA
State:
UTTAR PRADESH
City:
VARANASI
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Institutions for Women Only, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The University, formerly known as Central Hindu College, was founded in 1916 to preserve and promote popular Hindu culture. The College of Music and Fine Arts was established in 1950 to train students in both North Indian and South Indian vocal and instrumental music and dance. There is a flourishin...
Country:
IRAN
State:
City:
TEHRAN
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Institutions for Women Only, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This school commences at year 7 and continues through to year 12 operating under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Education. A further two years may be taken (under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance). Students enrolled from years 7 to 12 study general subjects as we...
Country:
JAPAN
State:
CHIBA PREFECTURE
City:
MATSUDO
Special Indexes:
Band Conducting, Institutions for Women Only, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance
Notes:
A private university for women. Seitoku University can trace its history back to 1933. There are attached kindergartens, primary, junior and high schools with strong music programs. ...
Country:
JAPAN
State:
HYOGO PREFECTURE
City:
NISHINOMIYA
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Institutions for Women Only, Music Therapy
Notes:
A private university for women founded in 1939 as a girls’ high school. It gained its current name and status in 1949. The program becomes co-educational at graduate level. The School of Music has two departments - Performing Arts, and Applied Music. There is an international branch campus in Spo...
Country:
JAPAN
State:
KANAGAWA PREFECTURE
City:
YOKOHAMA
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Institutions for Women Only, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This is a private Protestant Christian university for women founded in 1950, and gained its current name and status in 1965. It has two campuses in the Yokohama area. Historically the University grew from a small private school for girls in Yokohama founded in 1870, and was the first such school in ...
Country:
JAPAN
State:
KANAGAWA PREFECTURE
City:
KAMAKURA
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only, Instrument Collections
Notes:
A private college for women, founded in 1943 and was granted its current name and status in 1989. Facilities include a large auditorium and a Japanese-style hall. The College owns fifty electronic pianos. ...
Country:
JAPAN
State:
KYOTO PREFECTURE
City:
KYOTO
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only, Library Collections, Music Therapy, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A private university for women based on Christian principles, founded in 1876. It was chartered as a university in 1949. The College has a traditional Japanese music club. The library holds a collection of some 9,300 mandolin scores, 9,400 guitar scores including some by Fernando Sor, and a first ed...
Country:
JAPAN
State:
KYOTO PREFECTURE
City:
KYOTO CITY
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A private Buddhist university for women. It can trace its history back to 1899 and was granted its current name and status in 1949. Attached to the University are schools and a kindergarten. ...
Country:
JAPAN
State:
MIYAGI PREFECTURE
City:
SENDAI
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only
Notes:
A private college for women, founded in 1886 on Christian principles. It was granted its current name and status in 1949. There is a large chapel with a pipe organ and a 1,200-seat auditorium. ...
Country:
JAPAN
State:
NAGASAKI PREFECTURE
City:
NAGASAKI CITY
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance
Notes:
A private Christian college for women, founded in 1879. It became an official university in 1919 and was granted its current name and status in 1981. The Faculty of Music operates on the Shintomachi campus and has two departments - music performance and applied music. There are two chapels, one seat...
Country:
JAPAN
State:
TOKYO PREFECTURE
City:
TOKYO
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Institutions for Women Only, Opera Performance, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A national university for women, founded in 1875 and was granted its current name and status in 1949. Music studies (known as ‘Music Expression’) are offered within the Division of Performing Arts. The University has a number of exchange programs with universities in England and Australia, as we...
Country:
PHILIPPINES
State:
City:
MANILA
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Institutions for Women Only, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private non-sectarian higher education institution founded in 1907 as a school and college for women. It gained university status in 1933. The University runs a secondary school program for prospective students. There are campuses in Manila, Makati and Malolos. Language of instruction is English. ...
Country:
PHILIPPINES
State:
City:
NAGA CITY
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only
Notes:
This private Catholic Vincentian university is owned and run by the Daughters of Charity. It was established in 1867 and is the oldest normal school for girls in the Philippines. It gained university status in 2001. The program is accredited by the Philippine Association of Accredited Schools, Colle...
Country:
SOUTH KOREA
State:
City:
SEOUL
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A private university established in 1950 as Dongduk Women’s College. It gained its current name and status in 1987. The University’s Performing Arts Centre was opened in 2001. The College of Performing Arts concentrates on stage and public performance, with departments of dance, music, modelling...
Country:
SOUTH KOREA
State:
City:
SEOUL
Special Indexes:
Church Music/Religious Music, Institutions for Women Only, Music Therapy, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
This private university can trace its history back to 1886 with the establishment by the Methodist Church of Korea’s first school for women. It is one of the world’s largest universities for women and is based on Christian principles. The College of Music was founded in 1925, the Sacred Music De...
Country:
SOUTH KOREA
State:
City:
SEOUL
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only, Opera Performance
Notes:
Founded in 1906, this was Korea’s first private college for women. It gained its current name and status in 1948. ...
Country:
SOUTH KOREA
State:
City:
SEOUL
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only, Music Therapy
Notes:
A private women's university, founded as Sungshin Girls’ School in 1936, and gained its current name and status in 1981. The Department of Music Therapy was created in 2006. ...
Country:
SWITZERLAND
State:
City:
ZÜRICH
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only, Jazz/Popular Music Performance
Notes:
Previously known as 'SERPENT, the Rock-Pop-Jazz School for Women', this school is a non-profit organisation which offers training for women in all aspects of jazz, pop and rock music. An interesting article about this group entitled 'The Serpent Women of Switzerland' by Nicole Soland is published in...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
OAKLAND
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Institutions for Women Only, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Library Collections, Sound Archives, Sound Engineering, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
A private liberal arts college for women founded in 1852. In 1871 it was granted the name Mills College in 1865 and in 2022 it joined forces with the Boston-based Northeastern University to become the Mills Institute at Northeastern University, Oakland. It becomes co-educational at the graduate leve...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
CALIFORNIA
City:
CLAREMONT
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Institutions for Women Only
Notes:
A private, liberal arts college for women, founded in 1926. Member of the Claremont Colleges consortium which includes Pomona College, Pitzer College, Claremont McKenna College, Harvey Mudd College, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences and the University of Claremont Graduate School, mos...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
GEORGIA
City:
DECATUR
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Institutions for Women Only, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance
Notes:
A private women’s college of Presbyterian heritage, founded in 1889. The music department owns four organs, a German double harpsichord and a set of Ghanaian drums....
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
GEORGIA
City:
ATLANTA
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only, Library Collections
Notes:
A private historically black independent liberal arts college for women founded in 1881. The Department of Music, an All-Steinway School, is housed in the John D Rockefeller Jr. Fine Arts Building, with some fine performance spaces and a state-of-the-art music technology laboratory. The library hou...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
GEORGIA
City:
MACON
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Institutions for Women Only, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy
Notes:
A private church-related college for women founded in 1836 and claimed to be the world’s oldest women’s college. It is associated with the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Fine Arts Division offers programs in art, music and theatre. Music students frequently undertake internships with such local...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
INDIANA
City:
ST MARY-OF-THE-WOODS
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only, Music Therapy
Notes:
A Catholic liberal arts college, originally for women, sponsored by the Sisters of Providence, founded in 1840. Since 2015 it has become a co-educational institution. Facilities include some fine performing spaces and a state-of-the-art music technology laboratory. Member of the National Associatio...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
INDIANA
City:
NOTRE DAME
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only
Notes:
A private liberal arts Catholic college for women, founded in 1844. Facilities include a 1,300-seat performance hall, a 270-seat recital hall and a computer laboratory. The College is a sister school of the University of Notre Dame. Member of the National Association of Schools of Music. ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MASSACHUSETTS
City:
SOUTH HADLEY
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Institutions for Women Only
Notes:
Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college, founded in 1837 as Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. It gained its current name in 1893. It is one of a five-college consortium which shares programs for the purpose of extending and enriching their collective educational resources. The o...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MASSACHUSETTS
City:
NORTHAMPTON
Special Indexes:
Early Music Performance, Ethnomusicology/World Music, Institutions for Women Only, Instrument Collections
Notes:
A private college for women founded in 1875. It becomes co-educational at graduate level. The music department is housed in Sage Hall and has access to a number of fine performance spaces. It owns a gamelan. Smith College is the nation’s largest liberal arts college for women. It is one of a five-...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MASSACHUSETTS
City:
WELLESLEY
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Institutions for Women Only, Instrument Collections, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A liberal arts college for women founded in 1870. The Department of Music is housed in the Jewett Arts Center and owns a collection of early instruments and Western orchestral instruments. A scheme of cross-registration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology allows students to take programs ther...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MINNESOTA
City:
ST JOSEPH
Special Indexes:
Choral Conducting, Church Music/Religious Music, Institutions for Men Only, Institutions for Women Only, Opera Performance
Notes:
These are two Catholic Benedictine liberal arts colleges - College of St Benedict for women (founded in 1961, but with records dating back to 1913), and St John’s University for men. They share one academic program and students attend classes together on both campuses. The department of music has ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
MISSOURI
City:
COLUMBIA
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only, Music Theatre Performance
Notes:
A four-year college for women, founded in 1833, being the second oldest female educational establishment that is still a women's college in the USA. There is a Professional Conservatory Training Program. ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
NEW YORK
Special Indexes:
Ethnomusicology/World Music, Institutions for Women Only, Jazz/Popular Music Performance, Opera Performance, Sound Engineering
Notes:
An independent liberal arts college for women, founded in 1889 and affiliated with Columbia University. There are two opera companies in residence - Opera Hispanica and the Brooklyn Opera Theater. Exceptionally talented students may receive permission to take performance lessons at the Manhattan Sch...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NEW YORK
City:
TROY
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy
Notes:
Russell Sage is an independent private college for women, founded in 1916. It is one of the three colleges that make up The Sage Colleges, the others being Sage Graduate School and Sage College of Albany. There is an accelerated honours program allowing exceptionally-qualified students to complete a...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NORTH CAROLINA
City:
RALEIGH
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only, Instrument Collections, Suzuki
Notes:
A private independent liberal arts college for women founded in 1891 and affiliated with the Southern Baptist church. The College is co-educational at graduate level. The music department houses over 65 pianos, several organs and a set of handbells, and has access to some fine performing spaces. In ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
NORTH CAROLINA
City:
WINSTON-SALEM
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Institutions for Women Only, Instrument Collections, Library Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Orff Schulwerk, Suzuki, Wellness for Musicians
Notes:
A private liberal arts residential college for undergraduate women, and co-educational for graduate studies in education and music. It is affiliated with the Moravian Church and is one of the oldest fully accredited professional music schools in the USA, tracing its history back to 1766. The music p...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
SOUTH CAROLINA
City:
COLUMBIA
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Institutions for Women Only, Music Theatre Performance, Sound Engineering
Notes:
A private liberal arts college for women, founded in 1854 and related to the United Methodist Church. It is the eleventh oldest women’s college in USA. Evening and graduate programs are co-educational. A preparatory department known as Musical Arts Studios offers tuition in performance, ensemble...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
SOUTH CAROLINA
City:
SPARTANBURG
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Band Conducting, Choral Conducting, Institutions for Women Only, Music Theatre Performance, Music Therapy, Opera Performance, Sound Engineering, Suzuki
Notes:
A professional school of music in an independent liberal arts institution originally for women. Formerly known as Converse College it became co-educational and was granted its current name and status in 2021. The School of the Arts offers programs in art and design, theatre, dance and music. The Pet...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
VIRGINIA
City:
ROANOKE
Special Indexes:
Arts Management/Music Management, Institutions for Women Only, Instrument Collections, Music Theatre Performance, Opera Performance
Notes:
A liberal arts university for women, founded in 1842. The music department is housed in Presser Hall and is an All-Steinway School. There is a 47-bell carillon as well as some early keyboard instruments and a set of steel pan drums. The Hollins Academy of Music offers music instruction to children ...
Country:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
State:
WISCONSIN
City:
MILWAUKEE
Special Indexes:
Church Music/Religious Music, Institutions for Women Only, Music Therapy
Notes:
An independent Catholic liberal arts college for women founded in 1887 as a teachers’ college by the School Sisters of St Francis. It gained its current name and status in 1946. All music students are expected to undertake internships. Member of the National Association of Schools of Music. ...
Country:
ZIMBABWE
State:
City:
HARARE
Special Indexes:
Institutions for Women Only, Traditional Instrument Performance
Notes:
The Academy was founded in 2002 to provide music education, dance and related arts to students, with priority given to girls and women who have always been marginalised in the modern creative arts scene in Africa. It offers modern education in these areas while retaining and continuing traditional ...