<p>Hi guys..I'm new to this forums and in search of finding some advice. I want to major in music (Music Technology) and was wondering out of these three colleges where is it the best to study music technology..
University of Michigan
New York University:Steinhardt
Berklee college of music</p>
<p>I know what you guys are probably thinking.."of course berklee!" Right? ;)
But i was wondering maybe if NYU:Steinhardt or UMich is just as good as Berklee..?</p>
<p>-Thanks :D</p>
<p>I am confused. Steinhardt is the school at NYU where the music performance program is. But there is a program at NYU Tisch (a relatively new program) that is about music technology. Are you sure you have the right school at NYU for what you want to study?</p>
<p>As for Berklee versus NYU? I am positive that you could get a great education in this area and make wonderful connections at either school. The two are in very different cities and because of that they offer very different experiences. Also both are in the top when lists are made of most expensive schools, so I suspect (unless you are fabulously wealthy) that it will also come down to scholarship money. There is no predicting which school will give you more.</p>
<p>No, I don’t know that I’d have thought “Of Course, Berklee” per se.</p>
<p>My son attends the Umich program and loves it.
He did look at Clive Davis program for Recording Arts at NYU (but had not looked at Steinhardt straight music tech). He did not consider Berklee only because he was a little more interested in academic rigor/university amenities etc.</p>
<p>What aspects of music technology interest you in particular? What is your musical background/performance level/accomplishment? Do you have orchestral experience, jazz experience, or mainly play commercial/pop music (or all of the above!)? And what kind of academic stats have you achieved - eg. GPA and SAT/ACT? Those things will have some bearing on which programs are a good fit for you.</p>
<p>At Michigan, if you take the stream of music tech that includes engineering, your stats, and particularly math stat, will be taken into consideration as well as your portfolio of recorded music and audition.</p>
<p>In all streams, you will be asked to create an electronic instrumentation of a Bach fugue, which I is suspect is a way of ensuring that you can read and write music as well. You’ll also be asked to submit an original written composition/score, sound samples you’ve created (eg. it can just be something like audacity), your own recordings of your work, stereo mixed/mastered capture of a multi-instrument performance (engineering stream) and evidence of programming facility (all streams).</p>
<p>If those things are up your alley, Michigan might be a nice fit for you.</p>
<p>With a little more info, we might also be able to suggest some other programs worth looking into for you.</p>
<p>Eg. if you enjoy recording, take a look at the very popular Recording Arts program at Indiana U’s Jacobs School of Music, or Belmont’s Commercial Music Program, or Miami Frost’s music engineering program, etc.</p>
<p>I think CCM also has a new program this year that is a music tech/RA/composition hybrid.</p>
<p>Link to CCM’s new Commercial Music Production Program:
[Commercial</a> Music Production, University of Cincinnati](<a href=“http://ccm.uc.edu/music/cmp.html]Commercial”>http://ccm.uc.edu/music/cmp.html)</p>
<p>There are two recording majors at NYU, Clive Davis is a mix of business and music tech and Steinhardt is straight tech. Both are really great and none focus too much on music performance but it’s still part of your curriculum. Like someone else said, it depends on what you’re interested in. Berklee, from what I’ve heard, doesn’t let you start really getting in to your major until sophomore maybe junior year (I think they actually say that). You have to know where you want to be and what you want to know now, or if you really love playing and how much. I would hear it from the students. I love the nyu Steinhardt program, there are great people and there’s a lot to learn, and I know tech majors at Berklee that love it. </p>
<p>I don’t if that is a question to be answered unbiased,ynbecause I never even considered Berklee and didnt get the vibe that they really understood what it meant to be an audio engineer (only because I like science more than music, they are a very prestigious music school). Something to think about is if you find a career in music isn’t for you then you would have to transfer out of Berklee. But hey that’s just my thinking, kid once you know you know.</p>
<p>Umich is pretty great too. They really are all so great, good luck choosing between them.</p>