罗格斯大学音乐系提供音乐理论的硕士学位和博士学位。这些学术课程使学生能够利用梅森·格罗斯艺术学院内专业的音乐学院环境和一所主要研究型大学的广阔人文环境。音乐理论家，音乐理论家，作曲家和表演者可以通过研讨会来补充研究方法和音乐理论的最新知识。该计划促进对多种传统音乐的跨学科观点和批判性思维的发展，以及与曲目有关的各种分析方法的探索。鼓励音乐理论专业的学生参加音乐学和表演实践课程，并根据自己的研究兴趣在大学的其他部门上课。此外，通过大学间博士联合会，学生可以在普林斯顿，哥伦比亚，纽约市立大学，纽约大学，新学校
The Music Department at Rutgers offers MA and PhD degrees in music theory. These academic programs enable students to take advantage of both the professional conservatory setting within the Mason Gross School of the Arts and the broad, humanistic environment of a major research university. Classes in research methods and current issues in music theory are supplemented by seminars open to musicologists, music theorists, composers and performers. The program fosters the development of interdisciplinary perspectives and critical thinking on music of diverse traditions, and the exploration of various analytical methods germane to the repertoire. Music theory students are encouraged to take courses in musicology and performance practice, and in other departments throughout the university as appropriate to their research interests. Additionally, through the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium, students may take courses at Princeton, Columbia, CUNY, NYU, the New School, Stony Brook, and Fordham. The Rutgers music theory program prepares students to become active members of the professional academic community as well as independent thinkers who will challenge the field's intellectual conventions.