After graduation

Your diploma

After completing the programme, you will receive a Bachelor's degree in Music Education. You will then be entitled to use the title Bachelor of Music in Education (BEd). This programme is registered in the Register of Institutions and Programmes (RIO) under code 39112.

Working with a first-degree teaching qualification

Once you have graduated from the tailor-made Music in Education programme in Zwolle, you will be an enterprising teacher who can be deployed in a wide range of roles in both in-school and out-of-school music education. With your diploma, you will have a first-degree teaching qualification in music, general art and cultural and artistic education. This will open up diverse opportunities for you. In recent years, all students who have completed the tailor-made Music in Education programme have found a job, including several as music teachers in secondary education, where there are plenty of vacancies. But many graduates also find work as freelancers, by taking an entrepreneurial approach within the broad field of music education and creating their own work at existing cultural institutions or as start-ups.

In the classroom

Perhaps you already worked in education. With this diploma, you can now also work as a music teacher or teach arts and culture subjects. Or did you already have a background in music? Then, after completing your studies, you will have the right qualifications to pass on your knowledge and love of music as a teacher.

Other music education positions

Outside of regular education, you could work at a music school, set up your own music or art education institution, or become a choir conductor or ensemble leader. You could also write music methods, work for the educational department of an orchestra, ensemble or opera company, or set up social-artistic projects as an independent entrepreneur.

Entrepreneurship

Many of our students become independent entrepreneurs after completing their studies or combine a permanent job with entrepreneurship. That is why ArtEZ puts substantial focus on entrepreneurship, both during and after your studies. Would you like to learn more about independent entrepreneurship? Then you can start your own music education business within your graduation profile and conduct your own research.

Further study

Would you like to deepen your knowledge or specialise? Then you can move on to a master's programme, either in the UK or abroad. For example, at ArtEZ you could take the Master Kunsteducatie or the International Master Artist Educator programmes.