Career Options
Options for further study at JLU
JLU offers a Master's programme in Applied Musicology. Students of this degree can focus on either Music Communication, Popular Music and, or Empirical Music Research.
Career options
Equipped with their well-founded grounding in theory and their knowledge of methodological practice, graduates of Giessen's BA in Music can be employed in a wide spectrum of jobs. There is a great variety of possible careers for them to choose from, particularly in the cultural sector, communications and further education but also in parts of business and trade. They can help to meet the still-growing need for secondary service provision (e.g. organisation, planning and management; care, consultation, education and publishing; research and development). This degree, depending on which areas students have chosen to specialise and particularly in combination with the follow-up Master's, qualifies them for jobs in
- editing (print media, broadcasting, internet),
- cultural institutions (e.g. museums, archives, theatre),
- education (e.g. private schools, music schools),
- cultural clubs and associations,
- culture departments within companies,
- recording and sound design,
- universities and other musical higher-education and/or research institutions,
- record production, distribution and publishing,
- book and sheet-music production, distribution and publishing,
- music management,
- advertising (both using music to advertise and advertising music),
- tourism and the leisure industry.