<p>Thank you all, I will look into all the colleges suggested. I am glad I came across this site, you all were very helpful.</p>
<p>My brother went to the Conservatory Of Recording Arts & Sciences in Arizona. He really liked it with the class sizes and the times of his classes, he liked his instructors and the curriculum. </p>
<p>I actually got to go and take a short tour of the school when visiting him and it looked impressive.</p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>Emerson has an audio engineering program</p>
<p>^^^^^^Actually, Taxguy, CCM has a new program starting in 2012 called Commercial Music Production…I suspect CCM will be leveraging its e-media studios for same.</p>
<p>Here’s a description for the OP – I can’t recall now if you wanted composition…you didn’t really tell us much about your specific goals.</p>
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<p>I think one of my nephews went to a program at NYU. There were many opportunities for internships but getting a full time job after graduation was difficult for every one in his major. He was a very good drummer going in but came out with the computer being his primary instrument.</p>
<p>CCM’s new major is more music oriented than their emedia program. Also requires some composition. The head of the jazz dept (it’s part of jazz studies I believe) said it was designed for musician/composers who want to produce their own music as well as others’.</p>
<p>Capital University in Columbus has a Music Technology program that is very popular. There is a BM track for musicians and a BA track for non-musicians or those musicians who want to minor in something non-music (typically business or a “regular” liberal art).</p>
<p>^Right, no instrument, I forgot.
He/she said they wanted composition though…but I do believe that program also requires an audition…</p>
<p>Here’s t he lowdown on the CCM program: [New</a> Undergraduate Major Offered in Commercial Music Production](<a href=“Error | University of Cincinnati”>http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=14810)</p>
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<p>Capital’s BM requires a successful audition but the BA doesn’t.</p>
<p>My S’s best friend is in a music production/engineering program at UNC-Asheville and absolutely loves it. His high school grades and SATs were average and he was looking at Full Sail until he found UNC-A. The program does not require an instrumental audition.</p>
<p>Another student I know is in a similar program at Drexel and really loves it. Drexel also has a summer workshop that looks very good.</p>
<p>I forgot that also have a friend whose son recently graduated from Middle Tennessee’s program and loved it. He got a job with a recording studio in Nashville. They live in northern Virginia and visited several schools before they chose MTSU.</p>
<p>I have friends that went to Berklee School of Music as well as Full Sail. I think those that went to Full Sail made the best of their time and resources. They learned what they wanted to learn and are genuinely happy with where they are today. Unlike those persons that went to Berklee, they did not go in playing an instrument though one has learned a bit for the music production. Of course those that went to Berklee are more “successful” and tour the world with talented musicians as well as work on their own music outside of touring. Those that went to Full Sail also work in production but it helps that both have good access to other people in the business. They are on opposite ends of the spectrum but the few that I know that attended FS, haven’t complained about their studies and currently work in music.</p>
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<p>There probably is. Why? I must have missed something as I see no commercial interruptions on this board.</p>
<p>^B/c a commercial/for profit institution made a post just prior to that comment.</p>
<p>Oh. they must have deleted or changed that post. </p>
<p>I did see a post that was obviously made by someone who worked at some type of college, but I didn’t see any reference to the school name, nor did I see anything posted that was inappropriate. Unless I’m missing something.</p>
<p>Well, apparently the mods agreed with you, imagep, because they didn’t pick up on it, either. ;)</p>
<p>LOL, stradmom. I remember reading the “offending” post and thinking W T F. Your follow up was perfect!</p>
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<p>[Audio</a> Technology Degree Programs & Information | American University, Washington, DC](<a href=“http://www.american.edu/cas/performing-arts/audio-tech.cfm]Audio”>http://www.american.edu/cas/performing-arts/audio-tech.cfm)</p>
<p>Audio Technology program genesis was in the physics dept, now resides in performing arts</p>
<p>If you are seriously interested in becoming a recording engineer or producer then I would not waste my time or money on a college or university. I see resumes everyday from people that went to places such as Berklee, Peabody or Full Sail. They have $200K of debt and not much else.</p>
<p>I would suggest a different approach. Spend a fraction of that on a good Pro Tools system with a number of VI’s and Plug ins and start recording. There are vast free resources that you can use to get started. Then use your ears. At the same time find a top studio and go intern, make a connection with engineers and producers there and let them mentor you. Spend some money on piano lessons and at least have a basic knowledge of music theory. At the end of four years doing this you will be hiring the graduates from the programs as interns.</p>
<p>What’s your background, Sidecut?</p>
<p>Actually, from a strictly technical viewpoint, if a person wants to learn the technology portion of this kind of training, there is nothing wrong with sidecut’s advice. In fact, most kids in portfolio-only programs at the best universities have done exactly that all through high school 
and pretty much have to in order to get in.
I also agree that being 200k in debt is not a place for anyone in the music industry to be.</p>
<p>However, what sidecut’s advice doesn’t account for are all the elements of a good program in terms of developing an ear/musicality, the actual engineering principals, the programming elements that are even more germane today, the interactive programming required for live work in the performing arts, the networking, the access to the highest
quality gear, and the overall depth of good programs, which typically involve developing scientific-based critical thinking and problem solving.
So it depends on what kind of contribution one wants to make, and whether they also want to learn to design sound or develop products as well in the future. I can personally run a live soundboard and I can personally capture and mix tracks in logic with absolutely
no training and a wee bit of an ear just from having been in a band and having some modicum of technical aptitude few decades ago That is not the same, or shouldn’t be the same as what you actually learn in a good program.</p>
<p>However, sidecut’s advice should be the minimum effort expended BEFORE contemplating student debt from a major program ;)</p>