My daughter is currently a junior in high school. She is looking for a smaller (5000-7000) school in the northeast that has a marching band. She would like to major in computer science and minor in music. We visited Marist, which she loved, so we’re looking for similar schools. Any suggestions?
Would she consider a pep band? Villanova has one of the best!
Ohio University comes to mind – they are often on YouTube, so she could see their show style
What are her academic stats? What is your budget?
Perhaps Lehigh?
This is more than the 5000-7000 this student wants. OU is also not in the northeast.
But agree, their marching band is terrific (says the proud OU alum).
However, if this student is from the northeast, and wants a larger school…how about the flagship in her state?
You might want to ask on the music major forum under “college majors” here.
Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. Fantastic marching band with scholarships. Gorgeous campus, does have CS major.
Winning is more fun, so one thing I did when my son was looking for a college marching band was look through the football and basketball conferences in the states where you might want to attend and check out the band culture at the schools with good teams. You never know what you’ll come across. In our neck of the woods (MN) there was even a video of a hockey pep band doing a few formations on the ice between periods. (No one fell, but during practice someone must have. Can you imagine? “How on earth did you do this to your trombone?” “Well…”)
Don’t worry about the sports record of schools. In my time at UW (WI) the fantastic marching band was the highlight of the football games. This is a large school, plus out of your region. Do go to the CC music site.
I was thinking Ohio was close enough to Northeast (so OP really means New England?) . But you got me on the size. .
A little further down I95, but this is a gem of a school with a great Marching Band…
http://cnu.edu/academics/departments/music/ensembles/marchingband/
It’s larger than your daughter is thinking about, but UMass Amherst has both a great marching band and a strong CS program.
I have some time on my hands this afternoon, googled “colleges with marching bands” and looked at northeastern states (to my mind, that’s Pennsylvania on up). You indicated a pretty narrow enrollment spread, but aside from Marist, the following colleges mostly hit your sweet spot in terms of size, and have ABET-accredited computer science programs. Not surprisingly, they’re all in PA:
Edinboro
Lehigh
Millersville
Robert Morris
Shippensburg
Slippery Rock
I don’t know if band membership is by audition or interest, or whether the schools are suitable for your situation in any other way other than having a band. It’s a good starting point, though, and not unlike my recent question about solo dorm rooms. I hope it helps.
I’m hoping the op will clarify where she wants to go to college. edinboro and slippery rock are both in western PA, which most folks do not consider the northeast.
No kidding; I wasn’t aware of that. Is western PA considered more mid-west than northeast? Being a mid-Atlantic sort, it’s all “up there” to me 
I think there’s a sort of “near Midwest” that includes Western NY, Western PA, Eastern Ohio, Southeastern Michigan. There’s lots of connection to the East Coast, more than you would find further west in Indiana or Iowa, but the attitude is more Midwestern, and there’s a certain degree of hostility to the hordes at the other end of the state (in the case of PA and NY). I grew up in that zone, and feel a lot of kinship with people from Pittsburgh, or Erie, Buffalo, Rochester, Detroit, Cleveland, Akron, Cincinnati.
For going-to-college purposes, I think precise region definitions are less important than driving distances. If you live in central New Jersey, western Pennsylvania is a lot closer than northern Maine, so it might as well be “the Northeast.” If you life in Boston, or New Hampshire, not so much.
I’m with JHS, I think culturally Pittsburgh is practically the midwest, but it’s a six hour drive and for us most of Maine and upstate New York is a longer drive and has much less convenient flights.