Follow Your Calling
Strengthen Your Musicianship and Your Teaching
- Flexible for Working Educators: Earn your NASM-accredited M.M.Ed. through a summer-only hybrid program that blends online coursework with on-campus classes and hands-on fieldwork.
- Career and Licensure Prep: This program supports professional licensure endorsement and prepares you to lead confidently in choral, instrumental, and general music classroom and ensemble settings.
- Ensemble-Based Learning: Network with and learn from colleagues and peers through active hands-on engagement in lab ensembles and workshops that mirror real classroom experiences.
- Customize Your Path: Attend summer workshops taught by nationally recognized clinicians in state-of-the-art facilities, including a beautiful recital hall and a music technology innovation lab.
Why Choose Gordon College?
- Thrive in Your Calling: Strengthen your competence and character through rigorous graduate programs that challenge you to lead and serve in a changing world.
- Outstanding Alumni Outcomes: Network with graduates who are thriving in schools around Massachusetts and across the country.
- The Best of New England: Study on our historic campus just minutes from the beach and 30 minutes from Boston’s cultural and career opportunities.
- 135 Years of Excellence: Since 1889, Gordon has stayed true to its mission, delivering academic excellence rooted in purpose and faith.
Choose New England’s Top Christian College
Gordon College is the only nationally ranked, multidenominational Christian college in New England. Here, we combine rigorous academics with hands-on learning that prepares you to lead with both calling and competence in your career and your faith.
“We gained so much from our time on campus — relevant, applicable lesson planning; experience making music in the ensemble setting; colleagues and friends to last a lifetime. It's a program that reminds you what you love most about teaching music!”
Sarah Grina, M.M.Ed. '21
Choral Director at Pollard Middle School, MA
Accreditation and Rankings
New England Commission of Higher Education (NECHE)
National Association of Schools of Music (NASM)
Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE)
Ranked in the 391 Best Colleges by the Princeton Review
Ranked as a Best National Liberal Arts Colleges by U.S. News & World Report
Ranked as a Best Value College by the Princeton Review
Ranked in the 2025 Best Colleges by Money Magazine
Ranked in the Top College of 2025 by Forbes