Abstract
In Turkey today, postgraduate programs include 10 doctorate and 17 master’s programs in the music education field. Among these programs, there is variety in terms of elements like AKTS, credit, different lessons with similar content, mandatory or elective lessons. The aim of the study is the classify and analyze the postgraduate music education programs in Turkey in line with the views of academics to recommend a holistic structural model for the postgraduate education process. The research has descriptive qualities with opinions from 71 lecturers in relevant departments used for data collection. Data collected with semi-structured interview forms were analyzed with content analysis. The research results identified that programs contained many lessons with similar names and contents, that these lessons need to be simplified, and that standards should be used for targets between programs in different universities. The study recommends that the “Music Education Postgraduate Programs” enter a restructuring process, that lessons in programs be classified according to area determined by aims, outcomes and content, and that a structure be created where students have to take at least one lesson from each area.
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