Jessup promises the wind when it comes to their graduate degrees, but the music department degrees and concentrations are basically garbage. They are loosely based upon the curriculum of other much better schools. The university promises meat and potatoes, but delivers cotton candy, and while this is sweet and tasty, it is not nutritious and therefore valuable in the long run.
Jessup claims to prepare students for leadership positions, but the degree paper is only fit to line the bottom of a bird cage. It’s really funny when student tour guides extol the music program and my leadership. Unsuspecting students discover the damning truth when they begin to attend. Want to know what’s funnier still? A lot of Jessup credits are not accepted by other universities when they transfer out. LOL
The Jessup music program is like cotton candy in terms of instruction. It tastes good, but there is no sustenance to it. That is why so many music students abandon Jessup after the first or second year for Sac State or other more qualified schools. My once vaunted UCO has dwindled to five instrumentalists in 2026. The vacuum is most assuredly the direct result of the way I run the music department and people just don’t want to deal with my s***.