<p>how is the music department at umich?
i am planning on double major-ing in engineering and music performance.
comments will be appreciated. thanks</p>
<p>Awesome...from what we can tell. My D is a rising freshman at UM....Voice Performance (soprano). Any specific questions? I can TRY to answer with our limited experience.</p>
<p>I am double majoring in music performance and LSA/RC. It's a 5-year program, but I'm going to try to do it in 4. Engineering-music, though, is much more difficult - I'm only doing a liberal arts major, probably, unless I follow this crazy whim to go into medicine.</p>
<p>oh. well is the engineering-music program hard to get into?</p>
<p>I would not say it is hard to get in, but your application to both programs will be handled separately. So you may get into one school but not into the other. Ironically, although LSA and Music makes more sense than Engineering and Music, the school of Music at Michigan is located in North Campus, right next to the College of Engineering and a World away from LSA!</p>
<p>As far as the quality of the School of Music, it is considered excellent, but it really depends on what you want to focus on. Overall, Michigan's school of Music is ranked anywhere between #4 and #10 in the nation.</p>
<p>S2530S2....When we were at orientation in June, there were a couple of other students in our small group who were majoring in music AND engineering. I believe the music students were instrumentalists. It is not easy...but it IS done. There would be others with which you could share your double major misery....and joy!</p>
<p>Alexandre...
you say...</p>
<p>"As far as the quality of the School of Music, it is considered excellent, but it really depends on what you want to focus on. Overall, Michigan's school of Music is ranked anywhere between #4 and #10 in the nation."</p>
<p>I'd be curious to see these varied rankings. Do you have a link?</p>
<p>I do not have links unfortunately. I remember the USNWR ranking Michigan #3 or #4 in 2000. Michigan's strengths, if I recall, were in voice, direction and composition.</p>
<p>Based on the 1999 USNews rankings, the music department was ranked 5th overall in the country:</p>
<pre><code>Composition: 2nd
Conducting: 1st
Jazz: 7th
Opera/Voice: 5th
Orchestra/Symphony 4th
Piano/Organ/keyboard: 4th
</code></pre>
<p>Here's a Link to rankings of all programs at UM:
<a href="http://www.umich.edu/%7Eoapainfo/TABLES/PDF/UMAA_Rankings.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.umich.edu/~oapainfo/TABLES/PDF/UMAA_Rankings.pdf</a></p>
<p>some are updated to 05' and some go back to 99' but Mich is awesome so I'm sure the ranks didn't fluctuate too much :)</p>
<p>Interesting...thanks!</p>
<p>oh. thanks for all ur info.
darn. double major sounds pretty tough.
what if i minor in music? would i still have to go through the audition process?</p>