Our online degree

Making teacher training accessible worldwide

To enable more musicians worldwide to become teachers, Longy has launched an online Master of Music in Music Education program that is available to anyone, anywhere. The program allows musicians to complete their degrees in as little as one year. The online degree is designed to be accessible and affordable through its asynchronous content that allows students to remain employed at their current job.

Ivan Shiu grew up in a musical family in Hong Kong and wanted to become a music teacher. But as an international student and a person of color studying in the U.S., he often felt unseen and misrepresented by his teachers—his perspective and contributions didn’t seem to matter. Determined to become the kind of teacher who could ignite a student’s passion for music rather than dampen it, Ivan enrolled in Longy’s music education program, which emphasizes culturally responsive teaching that values and builds on each student’s life experiences. He now teaches in a public school system committed to engaging its highly diverse student body with this same teaching philosophy. “Longy helped me figure out how to be my authentic self in the classroom, with students who often feel unseen as I once did.”