<p>Does anyone know much about this major. I am not asking for any of my kids but for a friend. Wondering if it was something that you could get a job after graduation. Many programs you are a student in engineering and music with a audition. Anyone know how the auditions are, how proficient you need to be and how many openings there are.</p>
<p>It's been really hard to find anything on this major. I did a search here and did not come up with a lot. Even the school websites were hard to find out anything and navigate.</p>
<p>Some schools that were mentioned were University of Michigan, Miami (FL) and Berklee.</p>
<p>If anyone knows anything about this or even any insight to jobs in the music industry, I would really appreciate it.</p>
<p>Go to the Audio Engineering Society at aes dot com and have a look at their education page. They list schools with audio related majors by region.</p>
<p>Some audio degrees are engineering intensive, others are music intensive. Some require auditions, others do not. At some schools, there may even be two departments offering audio degrees with different emphasis. Some degrees emphasize recording, others specialize in mixing sound at live performances.</p>
<p>My son has a degree in Live Sound Reinforcement and has worked professionally in the field. It involves some moments of glory, like travelling with well-known performers, and other moments of sheer boredom. He’s done everything from loading/unloading heavy equipment from the truck to standing in a cold rainstorm under a flimsy tarp for hours to being blamed when the talent has a bad hair day.</p>
<p>He wouldn’t trade it for a 9-5 job for the world.</p>
<p>But it takes a lot of hard work and the occasional lucky break. Many if not most of his classmates have moved on to other careers.</p>
<p>Thanks, I looked at the aes website. Good information about programs. Mother would like a degree heavier on the engineering.</p>
<p>They are just wondering if he goes this route will there be jobs for him. Already majoring in electrical engineering and doing well, just not thrilled with it and trying to find a way to mix his love of music with engineering.</p>
<p>I have a relative who went to Full Sail in something similar. He only found jobs that didn’t pay and went into something else. Wondering if a 4 year degree with a concentration on engineering would be more employable.</p>
<p>Does the dual program between Johns Hopkins/Peabody Conservatory still exist? It is an engineering/music degree for what you describe. Highly competitive. There was something similar with NEC/Tufts.</p>
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<p>That’s nice that the mother wants this. Is the MOTHER going to college? I’m not meaning to be snarky but IMHO, it should be about what the STUDENT wants. Maybe the student WANTS a program that is NOT heavy on engineering.</p>
<p>The Hartt School at University of Hartford has a good audio engineering program.</p>
<p>It is built around a MechE program rather than sound/audio recording engineering, but you may want to check it out. It’s pretty unique. S had to audition for the Hartt entrance, and auditioned the same as any Hartt candidate, but from what I understand the “acoustics kids” are evaluated a little more leniently than the pure music majors. S does know some kids in the acoustics program that didn’t pass the Hartt audition, though, and are doing the straight MechE Acoustics (BSME) major.</p>
<p>thumper1, good point. I think her feeling is that he is already in an engineering program and doing well. She would like him to have a back up plan if it’s not feasible to get a job in audio engineering. There is very little that I can find on this major. The student is almost halfway into a EE degree and wants to transfer. I think he enjoys the classes and finds them challenging but can’t see himself in a EE job. Really into music and wants to combine the two things he interested in.</p>
<p>JustaMom5465, thanks so much for the info. It’s great to find someone in the program he wants to transfer into.</p>
<p>Full Sail apparently has a negative image in the sound community, so I’m not surprised that people from there are having trouble finding work.</p>
<p>S’s degree is from Columbia College Chicago, where the Audio Arts & Acoustics program offers several different options. Faculty is excellent, location is prime, but due to open admissions, your classmates will range from those who would be competitive almost anywhere to, well, others. The others tend to disappear by the end of the first year.</p>
<p>American U in DC has a nice little program, as does Hartt, and U of New Haven.</p>
<p>I don’t believe the program at Belmont requires an audition.</p>
<p>If the son “can’t see himself as an engineer” then perhaps he should look at programs of this sort that are NOT engineering focused (although there is a LOT of engineering involved). </p>
<p>You know…I have my own bias here. The mom wants the kid to have a back up plan? My daughter has a degree in engineering (dual major in biology). She says she will NEVER be an engineer. It’s just not what she wants to do. So…while a degree in engineering might look like a good back up plan to the MOM, if the kiddo doesn’t want to be an engineer, it just won’t fly.</p>
<p>Try the Art Institute of Boston. I know the AIs are pretty much considered the McDonalds of art schools but they supposedly have a really good program for stuff like this. </p>
<p>I work at a school in San Diego called The Recording Arts Center and we have just started offering an Associate Degree in Recording Arts. If you’re looking for a supplement to a BS degree (which I would never steer anyone away from!) maybe this would work…you can take a look at our website if you like (tracsd dot com) and of course, contact me personally if you have any questions. Good luck!</p>
<p>deb, don’t have time to read this whole post, but my nephew got his Ph.D. in this area of engineering. Got it years and years ago (about 12+ years)…UPenn UG and Penn State grad. He’s had a job doing the stuff that he loves and is very well paid. He works… where else? but in CA. Nicest kid, but a bit eccentric. PM me if you want more info.</p>
<p>deb, my son goes to UMass Lowell, majoring in Sound Recording Technology (SRT). He passed the audition by basically preparing exactly the items they asked for. He said there were guys who are better guitar players yet did not pass the auditions because they weren’t proficient on the pieces the school asked them to prepare.</p>
<p>Also, since you mention the person already started an EE degree, UMass Lowell offers a minor in SRT for EE majors.</p>