<p>Yep, I chose NEU over Syracuse. The coop and Boston won out. So glad to hear you had a great first year.</p>
<p>Can you tell me how many students are in the Music Industry program. I know Bandier only has 20. Is the NEU program as small? Thanks for getting back to me.</p>
<p>niiiiiice! the neu music industry major is a lot bigger than you’d expect. my industry class was about 35 kids but the other industry class was mostly business majors minoring in music industry. but thats just the freshman classes so i’m pretty sure the music industry major as a whole is pretty damn big</p>
<p>So happy to have found this thread. My son is looking for programs in Sound Engineering/Recording Arts. He is also not a top notch performer, but he has been doing sound at church for 4 years. Nice to hear that some of you have found great programs without needing to be performers. How did some of you find what you thought was a quality program? Some of you mentioned co-op programs, a lot of what we have been looking at have internships available. Are these the same?</p>
<p>AtomicGirl, I just want to make you aware of the thread here <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/787110-music-industry-program-major-minor-help.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/787110-music-industry-program-major-minor-help.html</a>, which was started later in another part of CC, and has a fairly extensive list of options.</p>
<p>Thanks for that link violadad. I have looked for threads and apparently haven’t been looking with the right words in searches…</p>
<p>AtomicGirl, I might make a slight distinction between sound engineering/recording arts and “music industry” programs, some of which have overlap and some of which don’t in terms of true engineering level work versus industry skill/business. Since your son is also a performer, is he interested in music technology and contemporary composition as well? When I started down this path with my son a few years ago, I found it all very confusing. I’ll give you the broad brush strokes of the directions we looked – but know that I may be in error regarding the flavor of straight industry programs. Eventually, my son and I determined that if a program was not related to a strong school of music with music pre-reqs, then it wouldn’t suit his purposes.</p>
<p>At any rate, here are a few programs known to me that might be of interest to you:
• Bsc Recording Arts at Jacobs School of Music, Indianna U. – very reputable program for R/A, by portfolio that includes your own music. Competitive.
• Slightly different flavor - Clive Davis program at Tisch NYU – more popular producer/artist/producer program that includes recording and some aspects of music business and promotion. By portfolio, accepts about 1 in 10 applicants, for average of 30/year. Not part of NYU’s school of music, however, which I found odd.
• My own son is at University of Michigan, where through the School of Music you can take a combined ENG degree in the Performing Arts Technology program. Flexible degree with a stream designed for performers as well; also for engineers (if your s. is strong in things such as Calc – UM’s college of engineering is not for feint of heart 
as well as electronic composers and multimedia production. They take about 4 students per division for 16/yr. All streams are competitive but the ENG degree is phenomenally competitive (know a kid with a 3.9 unweighted and 35 ACT who was rejected – presumably based on talent assessment). Also note that you apply for the specific stream right from the start – have to reapply if you want to switch streams.
•University of Miami has a well-regarded recording/engineering degree, as does Belmont in Nashville and Colorado U. (Many would say Belmont is the best for straight industry production.)
•USC has a music industry degree where you can stream in business or technology and is a little similar to UMich in that it can cater to performers, producers/eng etc. The USC program also has similar prereqs such as music theory, musicology, keyboard etc. if your son wants a good grounding that way (which is what I like about UMich).</p>
<p>Then there are a ton of schools with music technology degrees distinct from industry where the emphasis can indeed be recording arts from the vantage of a performing musician but I’ve found no two programs are alike in this area. NYU’s Steinhardt School of Music and Oberlin Conservatory’s Tiamara program come to mind as top candidates. </p>
<p>Also noteworthy is McGill in Montreal, which is awesome for production but which has eliminated its undergrad in technology (now a hybrid with performance, I believe) but remains a strong grad program. Schulick is a strong music school there.</p>
<p>Hope that gives you somewhere to start. Omissions are due to pure ignorance on my part as we did not research every program on the planet
Cheers,
K</p>
<p>Yes, we have found a difference in Music Industry and Recording Arts. And my son is definitely more Recording Arts oriented.</p>
<p>My son has looked at U of Michigan, and he is solid in science and math (he was looking at civil engineering before this and has all the classes in high school to be competitive for that), but he really isn’t as interested in an integrated degree. Lately he has been looking at Texas State, San Marcos. Good school with solid recording program, not as prestigious as other schools, but the classes/program are exactly what my son is looking for. He is really not interested in performing, so he would prefer a program that is not dominated by performance, unless he gets to do all the recording and instead of playing.</p>
<p>Coppin State University in Baltimore MD Has a ENTertainment managemnt program</p>