RMC provides students with career guidance as part of the teaching process, and it is also possible to obtain individual guidance from the academic staff. On the pages describing the individual study programmes, you can read more about the career possibilities and typical career paths for graduates of the individual programmes.
Guidance within the scheduled teaching
In all programmes of the Conservatory students are taught about a number of factors that are central to the employment and career prospects in their respective programmes. The teaching aims to provide students with knowledge and tools relevant to the employment market for which they are being trained, and to ensure the best possible transition from their studies to working life.
Industry knowledge, self-employment, innovation and entrepreneurship
The Bachelor study programme Music Management has a clear focus on industry knowledge, self-employment, innovation and entrepreneurship, and part of the common career guidance is naturally included in a number of the programme’s subjects.
In the other Bachelor programmes of the Conservatory, Music Performance, Composition and Music Production, part of the joint career guidance is provided in the subjects External, Collaborative, Integrated Project (5th semester) and Entrepreneurship (6th semester).
In the Master’s programmes of the Conservatory, part of the joint career guidance is provided within the subject of Entrepreneurship, in which students receive instruction in a number of areas, all of which are central to employment and careers for graduates of the respective programmes. The teaching aims to provide students with knowledge and tools relevant to the employment market for which they are being trained, and to ensure the best possible transition from their studies to working life.
In the Conservatory’s Advanced Postgraduate Diploma programme, part of the joint career guidance is provided within the subject Entrepreneurship.
Practical work experience and collaboration with companies in the music industry
One of RMC’s aims is to provide students with an opportunity to acquire practical experience in relation to business and careers, and to enhance the employability of graduates by, for example, strengthening business-relevant aspects of their programmes, including through practical work experience.
Pedagogical internships are included in the Bachelor programmes Music Performance, Composition and Music Production. The pedagogical internship takes the form of an internal internship/external self-organised internship in brief courses, intermittent internship tests and an internship project in co-operation with external partners.
In the Bachelor programmes Music Performance and Composition, the curriculum in the fifth semester includes an external, collaborative, integrated project in which all students, in collaboration with external partners, carry out a major project aimed at preparing them for sustainable work as artists and arts educators.
In the Bachelor study programme Music Production, brief courses of practical training are carried out in the course of the programme.
In the Music Management programme, one semester’s external practical experience is taken in companies in Denmark or abroad. Students also carry out four semester projects during their programmes – typically in collaboration with companies in the music industry.
In all of the Conservatory’s Master’s programmes, Music Performance, Music Creation and Music Education, a compulsory external semester is included in which all students immerse themselves in the programme’s main field of study while at the same time focusing on entering into professional networks, both programme-specific and entrepreneurial.
Teachers associated with the business community
The vast majority of the teachers at RMC are active practitioners within their disciplines. This is secured in the terms of their employment, and by fact that the majority of RMC’s teachers are part-time staff members. The student can thus seek guidance from teachers who possess an up-to-date and concrete understanding of practice within the industry, and who have a direct connection with the employment market.
Individual career guidance
Throughout their study programmes, students at RMC are able to seek individual career guidance from the staff of the various programmes.
Life after graduation
Since its inception in 1986, RMC has produced more than 700 graduates. These are now active and making their mark right across the rhythmic music scene – many of them right at the forefront of the target employment areas of the programmes, as practising and innovative artists, or as teachers, sound engineers and music industry players. On the individual study programme pages you can read about some graduates of the individual programmes, and what they do today.
Employment surveys
Since 2004, in order to create awareness of the employment market that the students are being trained to enter, educational institutions under the Ministry of Culture have drawn up joint annual reports on the employment situation of graduates. You can read more (in Danish) at: