<p>I'm interested in a double major in Music Education and Finance in the northeast. I'm having problems finding colleges that allow me to do this. Has anyone found colleges that would allow this that I should look into? Any help would be greatly helpful!</p>
<p>We went through this a few years ago when son was looking at schools. Many schools will let you combine music and an outside major but not music education and an outside major. Logistically, music ed is very time consuming you will be required to take 18-19 credits/semester just to graduate in 4 years. When you try to add an another major it will require 5-6 years. Have you looked at music business? Combining music ed and music business would be easier since both majors often require the same basic musicianship sequence for the first 2 years of study. Several schools we looked at that were willing to work with son doubling music ed and an outside major were Gettysburg, College of St Rose, SUNY Potsdam, SUNY Fredonia, Baldwin Wallace, and Ithaca. Son decided to pursue Music Ed since it was his first choice but he still takes courses outside the music school when his schedule permits. If music ed is your first choice pursue it and take as many business courses as the schedule permits. You can always get a finance degree for your masters later on. (Or reverse the process and double in finance and music then get a masters in music education.)</p>
<p>Finance degrees arn’t that intensive and usually allow ample electives, a BM in music ed though is very concentrated and will likely only allow a couple of electives. Many music ed students take 5 years, or do summer school, just to graduate with one degree. Undertaking music ed with a second major might not be very time effecient when that extra time could have been spent in grad school.</p>
<p>Some grad schools offer two year masters program for people with a bachelors in a different field. Recently I was looking at the MBA program at my son’s college (he is a music ed student), they have several different a masters programs depending on the students situation and need. There was a one year MBA program for those with a bachelors in business, and a two year MBA for people who had a bachelors in a different field. Getting a BM in music ed and a BA/BS in finance would likely take just as long, if not longer than doing the BM first and then getting a MBA or Masters in finance. Having a masters may be much more valuable than having two bachelors degrees.</p>
<p>another option might would be a music ed degree with a minor in finance. If you took a few finance/business classes for your general ed electives, then you might could complete the minor in just one extra semester (or a summer school or two). Or in about the same amount of time you could major in finance, which often allows/requires a minor, and do two minors. If your school has a minor in education (my son’s college does) then you could dual minor in education and music.</p>
<p>There’s a zillion paths to the same end goal, be creative. Also, the larger the college, the more likely that there will be a variety of options.</p>
<p>Music Ed is for people who really want to teach children in K-12 public schools. Why do you want to pursue this degree? What do you see yourself doing with the 2 degrees? Finance is very different. If you do not have a love for teaching children then I encourage you to pursue the finance degree on it own and take some music for pleasure as electives or a minor.</p>
<p>The closest thing you could do to this idea (that I could find, at least) is to do the double degree program at Lawrence with a music ed BM and an economics BA. You could also double degree in performance and economics at Oberlin, but their music ed program isn’t undergraduate so I’m not really sure if you could triple degree with a BM, BA, and MMT but I don’t know enough about the program so maybe it could happen. The basic issue with this proposition is that generally a finance major is awarded in the form of a BBA degree and most double degree programs are BM-BA. At the same time, a lot of double degree programs don’t offer the possibility of music ed as a major and are confined to performance or composition, like the NEC-Harvard or NEC-Tufts programs, etc.</p>