January 9, 2025
As required by the NASM Rules of Practice and Procedure, the National Association of Schools of Music provides notice that the institutions listed below are as of this date scheduled for a comprehensive NASM review during the Commission meetings of May 29-June 2, 2025.
The list contains only those institutions being considered for accreditation or continuation of accreditation based on a full institutional self-study and an NASM on-site visit.
As a part of the comprehensive review, NASM procedures include the opportunity for third-party comment. Third-party comment may be used to address only matters published in the NASM standards and those aspects of Rules of Practice and Procedure associated with accreditation as published in the current Handbook of the Association. Please note that third-party comment is not a substitute for NASM procedures for filing complaints regarding a member institution.
The “Rules and Procedures for Third-Party Comment Related to Initial or Periodic Reviews for Accreditation” govern NASM third-party comment procedures and establish eligibility and other requirements for Commission and institutional reviews of third-party-comment.
Anyone wishing to file third-party comment eligible for consideration by a Commission must read and abide by these rules. All third-party comment must be filed using a current “NASM Official Third-Party Comment Form.”
The institution will be given an opportunity to review and respond to any third-party comment eligible for Commission review under the rules and procedures cited above.
To be reviewed at the cited Commission meeting, any third-party comment about any institution listed herein must be received by the NASM National Office no later than 5:00 p.m. EDT on February 13, 2025.
As of this date, the following institutions are scheduled for comprehensive review during the May/June 2025 meetings of the NASM Commission on Accreditation:
| Austin Peay State University | Clarksville, TN |
| California State University, Sacramento | Sacramento, CA |
| Clarke University | Dubuque, IA |
| Concordia University, Nebraska | Seward, NE |
| Drexel University | Philadelphia, PA |
| Illinois State University | Normal, IL |
| Jacksonville University | Jacksonville, FL |
| Louisiana State University | Baton Rouge, LA |
| Loyola University | New Orleans, LA |
| Missouri Western State University | Saint Joseph, MO |
| Montclair State University | Montclair, NJ |
| New Mexico State University | Las Cruces, NM |
| Ohio University | Athens, OH |
| Ohio Wesleyan University | Delaware, OH |
| Saginaw Valley State University | University City, MI |
| Southeastern University | Lakeland, FL |
| State University of New York, Oswego | Oswego, NY |
| Texas Woman’s University | Denton, TX |
| Truett McConnell University | Cleveland, GA |
| University of Arkansas | Fayetteville, AR |
| University of New Hampshire | Durham, NH |
| University of Northern Colorado | Greeley, CO |
| University of Puget Sound | Tacoma, WA |
| University of Wisconsin – Platteville | Platteville, WI |
| Virginia Tech | Blacksburg, VA |
| Washburn University | Topeka, KS |