On-Campus Transfer Admissions

Steps to Complete Application

The Change of Degree Application (CODA) is NC State’s centralized resource for applying to add or change majors. Undergraduate degree-seeking students at NC State may apply to the music technology degree program using the CODA resource in their MyPack Portal.

Complete the essay (on your CODA Application).
Follow the steps in your CODA Application to share a link to a PDF or Word document that contains the shared links to all of your application materials
Submit your CODA Application.

Important Dates

Fall Admission only. Visit the Student Services website for more details about the CODA process, important deadlines and notifications.

More about the CODA process

Portfolio and Essay Guidelines

Your application will include a digital portfolio and an essay response. Learn more details about each below.

Remember that a portfolio is both a showcase of your engagement with music and music technology as well as a collection of your strongest work in these areas. Instructions to upload your portfolio will be provided in wolfPAW.

You are required to submit no more than five (5) samples of your work where they can be reviewed by program faculty. Please limit each video or audio sample to 5 minutes in duration.

Portfolio samples include, but are not limited to the following:

Required Portfolio Samples:

Up to two audio or video recordings of solo or group performances with your voice, acoustic, or electronic instrument to demonstrate your musical performance abilities (ensure your individual performance is clearly audible or visible).
Up to two examples of any science, engineering, or computer science projects, lab assignments, or essays to demonstrate your technical abilities (ensure your name is visible on the material).

Optional Portfolio Samples:

One example of an audio recording and mixing project from a DAW session.
One example of a musical score, electronic realization of a musical composition, arrangements, or sound art.

As part of your portfolio, submit a single PDF with a description of each of your submitted samples.

For all musical materials, identify the work, date of recording, and context of the performance, discuss your inspiration, what you learned, and when they were completed.
For science, engineering, computer science submissions, summarize the goal of the project, highlighting the methodology and results. For hardware design submissions, provide schematics, flow charts or diagrams, as necessary.

File Sizes and Types

We support media files as large as 5GB, larger files will take longer to upload from your Internet connection and may stall if you are on a wireless connection or one that cannot sustain a connection for the necessary period of time.

We support the following file formats:

Media	Preferred Format	Other Acceptable Formats
Video	YouTube Link (for multiple videos, please create a playlist. NOTE: Make sure your video privacy settings are set to UNLISTED. If you set it to PRIVATE, we will not be able to watch your video.)	.3g2, .3gp, .avi, .m2v, .m4v, .mkv, .mov, .mpeg, .mp4, .mxf, .webm, .wmv
Audio	.mp3	.aac, .m4a, .mka, .oga, .ogg, .wav
Slide	.jpg	.bmp, .gif, .png, .tif, .tiff
Document	.pdf	.doc, .docx, .odg, .odp, .odt, .ppt, .pptx, .rtf, .wpd

Your essay allows you to describe your skills and experience in music technology, music performance and other musical activity. You will submit your essay response via wolfPAW.

Essay Prompt

In an essay of 300-500 words, please answer both prompts:

Describe your journey of learning musical instruments, composition, arranging, and/or arts entrepreneurship. Explain how the journey began, what keeps you motivated to keep practicing, and how you envision music staying with you in the future.
Describe a music technology product (something that exists or you imagine) and how you envision this product being used.