Billboard’s 2023 Listing – Billboard

The scholars who started their undergraduate schooling q4 at any of Billboard’s height song enterprise colleges are the primary because the magnificence of 2019 who can in reality be expecting to spend 4 years on campus and in school rooms.

Because the COVID-19 pandemic unfold in March 2020 and studying moved on-line, each and every scholar learning the song enterprise, or every other box, took on a double main — in resilience.

“The resilience and positivity that our graduating scholars have proven during the last 3 years has been an inspiration,” stated Sean McNamara, president/CEO of the Liverpool (England) Institute for the Appearing Arts — the varsity that Paul McCartney co-founded in 1996 — as he presided over LIPA’s commencement in 2022, the varsity’s first inperson graduation since 2019. “I consider those qualities will see them effectively embark upon the following level in their careers.”

The ones attending any of Billboard’s height song enterprise colleges shall be solidly situated to pursue careers in an increasingly more advanced song {industry}. The universities indexed are decided on via govt suggestions, alumni knowledge equipped through honorees from our more than one energy lists, knowledge asked from every faculty and a decade of reporting on those systems.

We proceed to prioritize extra inexpensive public faculties and universities whilst additionally aiming for vast geographic range. Past the song capitals of New York, Los Angeles, Nashville and Miami, scholars can in finding profitable curricula in Philadelphia, Memphis and New Orleans, in addition to Syracuse, N.Y.; Kennesaw, Ga.; Stillwater, Okla.; and Cleveland, Omit. This checklist contains the Valencia, Spain, campus of Boston’s famend Berklee Faculty of Track, the UK’s famed BRIT Faculty out of doors London, LIPA and the BIMM Institute, the most important supplier of modern song schooling in Europe.

Two noteworthy traditionally Black universities and faculties, public Tennessee State College in Nashville and personal Howard College in Washington, D.C., additionally benefit inclusion this yr.

Billboard gifts this checklist of faculties alphabetically and declines to rank establishments in what would incessantly be an apples-to-oranges comparability. (The previous yr has noticed well-liked complaint of faculty rating practices.) For college students in search of quantitative measurements — from admission percentages to tuition and charges to commencement charges — the ones information issues are to be had via unbiased assets reminiscent of Faculty Navigator, a useful resource of the Institute of Training Sciences, a department of the U.S. Division of Training.

By way of any measure, alternatively, the schools and universities right here be offering spectacular alternatives for college students in search of an edge in music-industry careers — operating campus checklist labels, devising enterprise plans, volunteering at height fairs, touring to main song {industry} occasions and assembly with main artists and bosses.

The school and directors at any of those colleges would echo the remarks of McNamara as their scholars entire their research and transfer to reshape the song enterprise: “We’re immensely happy with them and very excited to look at them development towards the following bankruptcy of their lives.”

Abbey Highway Institute
London

Established as a song manufacturing faculty in 2015 through Abbey Highway Studios and the landlord of the famed location, Common Track, the flagship program is now positioned within London’s Angel Studios, the web site of recording classes for acts together with Adele, The Treatment and Sam Smith. The institute additionally has sister systems throughout Europe and in the US, Australia and South Africa. It gives a one-year in depth program, designed in collaboration with the song {industry}, that dives deep into song manufacturing, sound engineering and the song enterprise.

Route: The core program presented through the entire institute’s campuses international is the complex degree in song manufacturing and sound engineering.

American College
Washington, D.C.

Created in 2013 underneath the steering of SoundExchange co-founder John Simson, the enterprise and leisure program at American College is housed within the Kogod Faculty of Industry and is already making a reputation for itself within the {industry}. The college is the alma mater of, amongst others, Wealthy Kepler, daily supervisor of The Killers, and CAA agent Zack Borson. Given the varsity’s location, it’s a very easy prevent for {industry} pros visiting the country’s capital in addition to native executives. Fresh visitors come with Michael Huppe, president/CEO of SoundExchange, and Audrey Repair Schaeffer, head of communications for live performance promotion and manufacturing corporate I.M.P.

Route: Representing Skill: Brokers, Managers & Legal professionals, taught alternately through Simson and previous Sony vice chairman of promoting Stacy Merida, informs scholars about all members on an artist’s group. The category additionally assists in managing regional recording artists.

Stanley Baldwin Wallace College
Berea, Ohio

This previous yr, Stanley Baldwin Wallace welcomed the largest-ever magnificence of incoming scholars to its song {industry} program housed on its campus simply quarter-hour from downtown Cleveland. The college, which in 2021 used to be invited to change into an academic associate of the Grammy Museum, gives individualized instruction blended with hands-on reports supported through Cleveland’s musical ecosystem, together with the Rock & Roll Corridor of Repute. Internship companions vary from Reside Country houses to small indie venues. In spring 2023, scholars had the chance to sign up for excursion control, a different subjects path taught through Lamba Productions president Hadden Hippsley, who has helped produce fairs together with Bonnaroo, Out of doors Lands and Governors Ball, whilst some scholars served as volunteers at Bonnaroo in June.

Tournament: Stephanie Yeager — excursion accountant for Foo Combatants, Phish, Bon Iver, Neil Younger and Blake Shelton — not too long ago visited the excursion control magnificence to offer perception into the monetary parts of a a success excursion.

Belmont College — Curb Faculty of Leisure and Track Industry
Nashville

Positioned not up to a half-mile from Nashville’s Track Row, Belmont’s Curb Faculty gives distinctive get admission to to networking alternatives with {industry} pros in addition to affiliated systems in spaces together with audio engineering and songwriting. Lessons reminiscent of Within a Reserving Company (taught in affiliation with CAA) and The Artist’s Workforce (which options {industry} visitors representing every of the primary roles on a recording artist’s group) are complemented through hands-on alternatives reminiscent of summer time time period Bonnaroo U. A partnership with the Songwriters Corridor of Repute yielded a brand new SHOF scholarship, and Belmont songwriting majors Lauryn Marie Hedges and Zander Jett had been named the inaugural recipients in Might. Hit-maker Desmond Kid offered a grasp magnificence on songwriting and navigating the {industry}, the primary of many in a sequence.

Tournament: In April, Belmont hosted Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw for an intimate Q&A about traveling, advertising and getting his get started within the enterprise.

Berklee Faculty of Track
Boston

Berklee gives two levels for college students pursuing careers within the {industry}: a bachelor of song in song enterprise/control and a bachelor of arts in song {industry} management and innovation, which debuted in 2022. The college continues to draw top-level {industry} visitors. Donald Glover, aka Infantile Gambino, spoke in March on a keynote panel as a part of its annual Occupation Jam that still featured former Beats through Dre president Luke Wooden and Primary Side road Advisors founder and CEO Paul Wachter. Berklee additionally has an expansive alums community, which contains Reside Country senior vice chairman of traveling Jared Braverman and Netflix song information and insights supervisor Anahita Bahri.

Route: BPMI Reside is a one-year program targeted at the competition enterprise. Scholars hone their abilities in skill scouting, artist building, and live performance promotion and manufacturing; the capstone contains alternatives to take part at Lollapalooza and Governors Ball, the place they paintings as manufacturing and excursion managers for artists.

Berklee Faculty of Track
Valencia, Spain

The sister campus to Boston’s Berklee Faculty of Track gives a one-year grasp’s stage in international leisure and song enterprise attended through scholars from greater than 20 international locations who can pay attention in stay leisure, entrepreneurship and the checklist {industry}. This system optimizes its location, bringing all scholars to the Long term of Track Discussion board in Barcelona and to the Nice Break out in Brighton, England, a convention and competition showcasing 500 rising artists from world wide. As well as, it every year welcomes high-level {industry} pros. This yr’s honorary doctorate recipient, Yvette Noel-Schure, recognized for her paintings with Beyoncé, Prince, John Legend and Chloe x Halle, used to be identified on the 2023 graduation rite in July, and up to date visitors come with Ithaca Holdings/SB Tasks founder Scooter Braun and supervisor Sophia Chang, who has labored with acts starting from Paul Simon to Wu-Tang Extended family.

Route: Rising Applied sciences and New Inventive Frontiers prepares scholars to each perceive and capitalize on technological trade, from synthetic intelligence to digital fact.

BIMM College — BIMM Track Institute
London

Given complete college standing through Britain’s Division for Training in July 2022, the newly named BIMM College now contains the BIMM Track Institute in addition to colleges for the acting arts, movie and TV. The BIMM Track Institute, with seven places in London and different towns throughout the UK, Eire and Germany, attracts on a 40-year historical past of training its scholars with high-end amenities, {industry} enjoy, a professional teachers and song enterprise connections. Lessons come with song enterprise; song advertising, media and communications; and occasion control to coach the ones aiming for {industry} careers.

Alums: Ella Mai, Fontaines D.C. and James Bay are a number of the graduates of the varsity.

The BRIT Faculty
Croydon, England

The BRIT Faculty, a tuition-free establishment that educates scholars ages 14 to 19 for careers in efficiency and artistic arts and comparable industries, used to be co-founded in 1991 through the British govt and the British Report Business Agree with (the charitable department of U.Okay. labels business crew BPI, which gifts the BRIT Awards). The college has experts instructing lessons in stay sound, manufacturing, recording, song tech and the song enterprise — whilst additionally providing a complete nonvocational curriculum. No longer sudden given its historical past, the varsity has outstanding connections inside the British song {industry} for occupation alternatives post-graduation. Scholars have participated in classes with {industry} figures from Disney composer Alan Menken to YouTube international head of song Lyor Cohen.

Alums: Artists together with Adele, Jessie J, Loyle Carner, RAYE, Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis and Katie Melua have attended The BRIT Faculty.

California Institute of the Arts — The Herb Alpert Faculty of Track
Santa Clarita, Calif.

CalArts scholars on the Herb Alpert Faculty of Track immerse themselves within the enterprise of song, however the faculty additionally guarantees that each and every scholar — even those that plan to pursue nonperforming roles — lean into some form of song advent. Amongst its alums: Composer Raven Chacon and composer/sound artist Ellen Reid are each Pulitzer Prize winners; Greg Kurstin, a manufacturer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, has gained 9 Grammys and labored with artists together with Adele, P!nk, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar. At the enterprise aspect, lessons reminiscent of AI Sonic Explorations, The Artwork of the Combine and The Artwork of Recording stay scholars forward of the curve relating to evolving generation and work-flow fashions.

School: Laurel Halo, a composer, manufacturer, stay musician and DJ, joined the college in fall 2022.

California State College, Northridge
Los Angeles

Whilst copyright legislation, publishing and licensing ideas, and the intricacies of recording and publishing contracts are key spaces of center of attention in the study room at CSUN, the varsity’s song {industry} research program additionally delves into entrepreneurship and experiential studying. Excluding ceaselessly internet hosting {industry} panels, this system — which counts singer-songwriter Andy Grammer as an alumnus — is house to Vove, a student-run checklist label the place members choose, checklist, advertise and organize an “artist of the yr.” Because of its L.A. location, the varsity additionally boasts a powerful internship program the place all scholars will have to earn 4 credit running in a sector of the song enterprise, from publishing to labels to stay occasions. Along with its undergraduate program, CSUN gives a grasp’s in song {industry} management, with magnificence schedules designed for absolutely hired scholars and midcareer pros.

Tournament: The college not too long ago offered a panel and networking dialogue of songwriting with Jud Friedman, an Academy Award- and Grammy-nominated songwriter (Whitney Houston’s “Run to You” from The Bodyguard); Bonnie McKee, who co-wrote hits for Katy Perry, Christina Aguilera and Kelly Clarkson; and Joe Poindexter, vice chairman of virtual at Pulse Track.

Delta State College — Leisure Business Research
Cleveland, Omit.

Positioned within the center of the Mississippi Delta, Delta State’s leisure {industry} research program gives small magnificence sizes and hands-on alternatives together with its leisure {industry} entrepreneurship and record-label practicum: Combating Okra Information, the place attendees paintings on the student-run imprint. The college every year attracts {industry} audio system, together with contemporary visitors Boo Mitchell, Grammy-winning manufacturer and proprietor of Royal Studios in Memphis, and Jim Sonefeld, drummer, creator and songwriter (Hootie & The Blowfish).

Alums: Erin Moorman, advertising coordinator at Syntax Inventive, and Libby Switzer, govt assistant at Inventive Strategic Control, each in Nashville.

Drexel College — Westphal Faculty of Media Arts and Design
Philadelphia

Scholars at Drexel’s Westphal Faculty of Media Arts and Design start taking song business-specific categories after they get started this system freshman yr. That permits them to have interaction within the faculty’s distinctive path choices, together with Girls in Track Business and Fan Engagement: One Route, which makes use of the previous boy band as a point of interest to inspect the previous, provide and long term of fan engagement. As a part of the curriculum, scholars spend six months running within the {industry}; this yr’s magnificence interned at firms reminiscent of Netflix, Goldenvoice, Common Track Crew, Republic Information, WME, Reside Country and AEG.

Alums: Common Track Crew senior director of artist and label services and products Deb Keller and The Orchard vice chairman of global label control Marissa Putney.

Complete Sail College
Iciness Park, Fla.

Complete Sail gives a number of nonperforming stage systems in spaces together with song enterprise, audio manufacturing, recording arts and the stay industry-centric program display manufacturing. The college additionally ceaselessly hosts occasions the place scholars can be informed from first-hand enjoy of the ones within the {industry}. Its contemporary speaker roster contains Mike McGrath, excursion supervisor for Jason Aldean, and Randall Foster, vice chairman of industrial building at Symphonic Distribution, and it hosts executives — and attainable employers — from firms together with Microsoft Sport Studios, Fever, Samsung, Disney and Carnival Cruise Line.

Alumnus: Track enterprise program graduate Michael Cariglio is a vice chairman of promoting at Republic Information.

Hofstra College
Hempstead, N.Y.

The selection of scholars enrolled inthe song enterprise program at Hofstra has just about tripled because the curriculum introduced in 2017. The college has created a brand new bachelor of science in song enterprise and in addition gives a song enterprise main (for nonperformers) that results in a bachelor of arts. Hofstra welcomes over 50 visitor audio system on campus once a year and gives internship alternatives year-round in New York (30 miles west of campus). A state-of-the artwork MIDI pc lab used to be finished in January, and a recording studio together with a keep an eye on room, stay room, isolation sales space and recording console is because of open on the finish of the yr.

School: Kenyatta Beasley, a professor of song enterprise who started instructing previous this yr, is a trumpeter, composer and song manufacturer who has labored with Tru-Sound New York, Interscope/G-Unit Information, Helen Han Inventive and Artwork vs. Transit Manufacturing.

Howard College
Washington, D.C.

The Warner Track/Blavatnik Heart for Track Industry at Howard College, funded through a $4.9 million reward in 2021, gives a one-year fellowship program that gives fellows with training, specialised curriculum, mentorship and enjoy running with spouse organizations. The Howard College Faculty of Industry takes the way that the important thing to addressing the underrepresentation of Black executives and pros in song and leisure is intense training and immersion systems, and the Warner Track/Blavatnik Heart often hosts {industry} executives for fireplace chats, grasp categories and different programming. Just lately, Combs International president Tarik Brooks offered a “grasp wealthy person” panel dialogue, and DJ Drama, a co-owner of Era Now (house to Lil Uzi Vert, Killuminati and Jack Harlow), had a consultation with scholars.

Route: Some of the college’s noteworthy choices is the category The Historical past of the American Track Business: What Isn’t Black Track?

Indiana College — Jacobs Faculty of Track
Bloomington, Ind.

At IU’s Jacobs Faculty, rising pros give you the option to ascertain a occupation trail that pairs their hobby within the song {industry} with a big set of occupation choices. Amongst more than one paths of analysis, undergraduate scholars can earn a music-oriented entrepreneurship certificates that comes with foundational lessons on the college’s Kelley Faculty of Industry. The song faculty additionally hosts a powerful roster of visitor audio system. Austin Wintory, an award-winning composer for movie and video video games, not too long ago visited the campus to speak with scholars in an occasion hosted through the Track in Video games scholar group and the administrative center of entrepreneurship and occupation building.

Tournament: Indiana local John Mellencamp spoke about his lifestyles and occupation in March on the college’s Franklin Corridor all over a symposium discussing the social and cultural affect of his song. College president Pamela Whitten therefore introduced that Mellencamp can be donating archived collections of his paintings to IU.

Kennesaw State College — Joel A. Katz Track and Leisure Industry Program
Kennesaw, Ga.

Built-in inside the college’s Coles Faculty of Industry, the Joel A. Katz Track and Leisure Industry Program teaches the enterprise aspect of the {industry} whilst offering sensible reports, on-the-job coaching and exploration of occupation alternatives. This system gives an annual find out about out of the country commute to London, together with an all-day talk over with with global executives at Sony Track Leisure and Common Track Crew. It not too long ago shaped a partnership with the e book and on-line platform Track Industry Toolbox and its author, Bryan Calhoun, that gives gear, templates, bureaucracy and steering to lend a hand scholars organize their song careers. This system not too long ago established a partnership with the Dolby Institute, an academic department of the audiovisual generation corporate.

Artist in place of dwelling: David Ryan Harris, John Mayer’s guitarist and a singer, songwriter, manufacturer and multi-instrumentalist, is Kennesaw’s newest artist in place of dwelling as of fall 2023.

Liverpool Institute for the Appearing Arts
Liverpool, England

Inside of LIPA’s curriculum on control for the ingenious industries and acting arts, scholars take the song {industry} control pathway teach along performers, technicians, designers and filmmakers within the faculty’s amenities. Of their ultimate yr, scholars take part in a three-month internship that displays their occupation objectives with firms reminiscent of Warner Track, Reside Country and Sentric Track Publishing. LIPA used to be co-founded in 1996 through Paul McCartney and Mark Featherstone-Witty, who retired as LIPA essential/CEO in 2021, succeeded through Sean McNamara.

Speaker: Robert Plant participated in a Q&A with scholars in November 2022.

Los Angeles Faculty of Track
Pasadena, Calif.

LACM’s song enterprise program — which gives a 12-quarter bachelor of song stage and a six-quarter affiliate of arts stage — is dedicated to providing scholars hands-on enjoy and networking alternatives. On reasonable, a scholar will meet and have interaction with greater than 100 visitor audio system and grasp magnificence visitors according to yr from all aspects of the song {industry}, and this system additionally options box journeys to firms reminiscent of Spotify, Hipgnosis, Common and Disney. Fresh {industry} visitor audio system come with Billboard’s Keith Caulfield, managing director of charts and information operations, and publishing reporter Kristin Robinson.

School: Track enterprise division head Erin Workman’s enjoy in artist building contains running with Zac Efron, Miley Cyrus and Ashley Tisdale.

Los Angeles Movie Faculty — The Los Angeles Recording Faculty
Los Angeles

Positioned within the center of Hollywood, the Los Angeles Recording Faculty (a department of the Los Angeles Movie Faculty) is provided with skilled recording studios that allow scholars teach in a real-world paintings setting. The college gives an array of levels throughout its song and leisure enterprise systems, which let scholars acquire analytical and sensible abilities each in the study room and within the box. New for 2023 is an 18-month on-line of completion program that permits the ones with an affiliate stage to earn their bachelor of science in leisure enterprise. The college additionally boasts an energetic speaker roster. Just lately, SunPop managing spouse Will Tenney spoke with scholars from the leisure enterprise program all over an on-campus occasion.

Alumnus: As president of Report Plant Studios, Jeff Barnes oversees enterprise operations and reserving and has labored with Justin Bieber, Beyoncé and Ariana Grande, amongst different artists.

Loyola College — Faculty of Track and Theatre Professions
New Orleans

New Orleans is likely one of the global’s maximum colourful song towns, and Loyola College’s song {industry} research program, inside the Faculty of Track and Theatre Professions, is helping scholars construct careers round their passions. Scholars be informed from professors who’re energetic within the {industry} and will create their very own skilled tasks along ingenious friends. Loyola’s two Hilton-endowed professorships fund scholar go back and forth and participation in more than a few song {industry} meetings reminiscent of NAMM, Americana and Mondo — with long term plans for South through Southwest and Track Biz. This system this yr introduced songwriter and song enterprise camps the place scholars labored without delay along Grammy-winning rapper-producer D’Mile and Pulse Track Crew’s Ricki Wealthy. The college additionally companions with town so scholars can lend a hand produce the yearly Freret Side road Pageant, which has drawn over 20,000 attendees an afternoon.

Route: Report Label Operations brings a running music-label entity to campus. With a professorship-funded price range of $5,000, scholars within the path shape a group to serve as as a label, recruiting and growing a tender artist for industrial unencumber.

Heart Tennessee State College
Murfreesboro, Tenn.

Positioned not up to an hour from the web site of the Bonnaroo competition, the place scholars ceaselessly acquire hands-on enjoy, MTSU gives an expanded center of attention past song recording into spaces together with live-event manufacturing, broadcast and streaming, and immersive audio for song, movie and gaming. As such, lessons in venue control, blending ways in immersive audio, and live performance promotion and traveling are well-liked by scholars. The college additionally hosts a revolving mixture of {industry} audio system. Blending engineer Andrew Scheps and recording engineer George Massenburg are amongst contemporary guests to campus.

Tournament: This summer time, MTSU scholars produced over 30 segments for Hulu’s Bonnaroo Track Pageant channel, which streamed the development.

Monmouth College
West Lengthy Department, N.J.

Monmouth’s song {industry} program combines coursework from the college’s enterprise faculty with its song and song enterprise curriculum, a hybrid type that prepares scholars for a spread of alternatives within the arts {industry}. House of the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Heart for American Track, the varsity contains hands-on actions like its student-run checklist label, Blue Hawk Information, and leverages partnerships with main song organizations, tech firms, companies and a cutting-edge recording advanced in Asbury Park. Closing yr, the brand new Monmouth Artists for Range & Inclusion launched an album on Blue Hawk, and the group’s founding contributors had been awarded a joint senatorial and gubernatorial proclamation from the State of New Jersey for contributions to society.

Alumnus: Joe Bognanno is director of song publishing licensing and partnerships at TikTok/ByteDance.

Musicians Institute
Hollywood

Anderson .Paak used to be as soon as a drum scholar and a drum instructor’s assistant at Musicians Institute, whose Hollywood location places it on the nexus of the leisure global. The college’s song enterprise program gives detailed specialization in each and every space of the {industry} via a often up to date curriculum taught through pros. Lessons quilt the gamut from legislation and contracts to song publishing and licensing to artist and excursion control, A&R and checklist labels, distribution, promotion and advertising. Musicians Institute may be frequently honing {industry} partnerships that function an instantaneous line into the group of workers via internships.

Tournament: All through a contemporary on-line social media workshop, BRXND vice chairman of artist control and virtual technique Dan Tsurif mentioned the significance of social media advertising and defined how platforms can support growing artists and types.

New York College — Steinhardt Faculty of Tradition, Training and Human Building
New York

The continuing addition of lessons like complex subjects in recorded song and song publishing, co-taught in individual through RIAA chairman/CEO Mitch Glazier and Nationwide Track Publishers’ Affiliation president/CEO David Israelite, is only one approach NYU Steinhardt guarantees scholars are studying from the leaders on the reducing fringe of the song enterprise. For the path Village Information, scholars paintings with impartial artists on occupation building spaces together with stay efficiency, sound recording, product control, exposure, control and fan engagement. The Steinhardt program additionally lets in scholars to take categories at NYU’s Stern Faculty of Industry and gives choices for them to finish research on its campus in Nashville (via a program designed in partnership with Common Track Crew) or at any of 12 international campus websites together with Los Angeles, London, Paris and Shanghai.

Speaker: David Grey, govt vice chairman of U.S. A&R and head of worldwide ingenious for Common Track Publishing Crew, is an govt in place of dwelling and engages with scholars a minimum of 3 times every semester.

New York College — Tisch Faculty of the Arts, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Track
New York

A holistic figuring out of industrial, efficiency, manufacturing, writing, historical past and rising media is the purpose of the Clive Davis Institute, which counts Maggie Rogers amongst its notable graduates. Scholars paintings with resident artists, reminiscent of singer-songwriter Crack of dawn Richard and singer Jamila Woods, and bosses in place of dwelling. Columbia Information A&R govt Katie Vinten served within the latter position this previous yr and in addition led a summer time accelerator program. Different contemporary audio system integrated Atlantic Information president of A&R Pete Ganbargs, Hipgnosis Songs Fund founder and CEO Merck Mercuriadis and Patreon co-founder and CEO Jack Conte. In partnership with Billboard, the institute gives a web based song {industry} necessities path. In 2022, Barry Manilow and faculty officers joined Davis on the opening of the Clive Davis Gallery at NYU. The institute may be increasing geographically, not too long ago launching a find out about out of the country program in Berlin.

Tournament: Pop Convention 2023, held in April on the institute, hosted visitors together with Timbaland, NPR song critic Ann Powers and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis.

Northeastern College — Faculty of Arts, Media and Design
Boston

Northeastern’s bachelor of science in song with a focus in song {industry} encourages scholars to change into entrepreneurial idea leaders and alter brokers around the song enterprise. Excluding categories interested in subjects together with actionable analytics within the song {industry} and artist control, the varsity is house to Excellent Canine Licensing, a student-run song synch corporate in which scholars obtain hands-on enjoy and gives four- or six-month co-op experiential studying alternatives. New this yr is a school bankruptcy of the just about four-decade-old nonprofit Girls in Track, devoted to fostering equality within the song {industry} throughout the make stronger and development of ladies.

Tournament: In honor of International Psychological Well being Day in October 2022, the Girls in Track Boston bankruptcy offered Psychological Well being Consciousness for Artists and Their Allies, a panel to lead musicians with sources and details about emotional well-being.

Occidental Faculty
Los Angeles

Occidental’s song enterprise lessons are embedded inside its liberal arts curriculum, and most of the scholars in song division categories main or double-major in different disciplines reminiscent of economics, math, politics, chemistry, philosophy and physics. The college’s location provides scholars get admission to to a capital of the song {industry}, offering immersive schooling via internships and different alternatives. In 2022, Occidental formalized its dating with Warner Track Crew (whose former CEO Steve Cooper is an alumnus) and has since hosted occasions with WMG executives for college students from all majors who’re occupied with a occupation in song enterprise.

Tournament: Warner Chappell Manufacturing Track vice chairman/head of criminal and enterprise affairs Steve Touchton met with scholars in March to proportion his 25 years of enjoy, box questions and be offering recommendation on coming into the enterprise aspect of the song {industry}.

Oklahoma State College — The Greenwood Faculty of Track
Stillwater, Okla.

OSU’s bachelor of science in song {industry}, established in 2017, stays the fastest-growing song program on the faculty. Fresh trends come with the Greenwood Faculty of Track’s new amenities, which opened in 2021, and a collaboration this yr with Kicker, a Stillwater-headquartered audio producer with which scholars partnered at the analysis and design of a possible new product. The coed-run song corporate Poke U incorporates a checklist label, song writer, live performance promotion and musical merchandise divisions, and the varsity has a powerful speaker and alums community. As soon as once more, the New York Philharmonic residency returned to the college’s McKnight Heart for the Appearing Arts, adjoining to the campus, with the chance for college students to paintings with the enterprise personnel of the orchestra.

Tournament: Alumnus Garth Brooks in April delivered two live shows at OSU: a scholarship receive advantages display and a loose efficiency solely for OSU scholars.

Rhodes Faculty — Mike Curb Institute for Track
Memphis

Rhodes Faculty and the Curb Institute get pleasure from their location within the artistically colourful town of Memphis, as Curb scholars faucet experiential alternatives within the town. In 2022, the institute introduced the Curb Neighborhood Fellows program, which supplies investment for college students to paintings without delay with native pros and organizations reminiscent of Goner Information, the Overton Park Shell, the Memphis Track Initiative and the STAX Museum of American Soul Track. On campus, they may be able to have interaction with Dredge, a student-produced zine and social media platform targeted at the Memphis arts scene, and Past Beale, a student-produced podcast that explores underresearched sides of town’s song historical past. The primary two seasons gained honorable point out reputation through the NPR Scholar Podcast Problem.

Lessons: In fall 2024, Rhodes will be offering two new certificate in song {industry} research — content material manufacturing and humanities entrepreneurship — that supplement the school’s core liberal arts challenge.

State College of New York, Oneonta
Oneonta, N.Y.

The song {industry} program at SUNY Oneonta is designed to enchantment to aspiring executives, in addition to scholars occupied with technical fields like audio manufacturing or who’re entrepreneurial musicians. Along with the core lessons, song {industry} scholars are required to finish a chain of lessons within the SUNY Oneonta Faculty of Industry, an array of basic schooling lessons and a minimum of one path from a slate of electives reminiscent of live performance manufacturing, in which scholars conceive, plan and organize a sequence of stay live performance occasions on campus and within the Oneonta group. Off-campus studying and networking reports come with a faculty-led commute to the yearly NAMM business display in Los Angeles.

Occasions: John Mayer not too long ago engaged with song {industry} program scholars via a video convention; every other occasion attached scholars with contributors of the Dave Matthews Band. (Mayer and Matthews are each purchasers of industrial supervisor and Cal Monetary Crew founder Rit Venerus, an Oneonta alumnus.)

Syracuse College — Bandier Program for Recording and ­Leisure Industries
Syracuse, N.Y.
This yr marked the go back of the Bandier Program’s global immersion commute, with a dozen scholars touring in Might to satisfy with greater than 40 executives at song firms in Singapore; Jakarta, Indonesia; Ho Chi Minh Town, Vietnam; and Bangkok. On campus, scholars choose between an ever-evolving number of lessons and in addition take on leisure {industry} exploration, this system’s capstone, for which seniors will have to construct a functioning and successful real-world enterprise. The former educational yr additionally noticed fast expansion within the readership of Complete Fee No Cap, a loose weekly electronic mail of {industry} research that program director (and previous Billboard editorial director) Invoice Werde crafts for college students to learn; the e-mail underpins a weekly, programwide student-led dialogue about {industry} traits and headlines. Subscribers quantity within the hundreds and come with height executives at nearly each and every main song corporate world wide.

Tournament: The weekly Wednesday-night speaker collection this previous educational yr scheduled over 25 visitor lectures from {industry} execs together with Warner Track Crew leader virtual officer/govt vice chairman of industrial building Oana Ruxandra and Apple Track ingenious director/radio host Zane Lowe.

Temple College — Klein Faculty of Media and Verbal exchange
Philadelphia

Temple College’s Klein Faculty gives an interdisciplinary bachelor of arts in audio and stay leisure that still contains lessons within the song and enterprise colleges. The school’s challenge is to empower and get ready the media creators of the next day to come to be moral, analytical and artistic leaders. The school has a wealth of {industry} enjoy, and lessons are incessantly complemented through shows through {industry} creatives and bosses together with Grammy and Academy Award winner Questlove and American Affiliation of Unbiased Track CEO Richard Burgess. (Philly local Questlove gained the school’s 2022 Lew Klein Excellence within the Media Award.) A student-run checklist label interfaces with scholar radio, TV and different ventures in a collegewide media ecosystem, and a find out about out of the country program gives alternatives in height international song markets reminiscent of Tokyo and London.

Alumnus: A couple of Grammy-winning manufacturer Noah Goldstein, founding father of Ark Publishing, has labored with artists together with Kanye West, Frank Ocean, Travis Scott, Rihanna and Paul McCartney.

Tennessee State College
Nashville

Some of the country’s traditionally Black faculties and universities, TSU is positioned within the center of Nashville and gives a industrial song program as a focus inside the faculty’s song division. Perks come with small magnificence sizes, focused lessons reminiscent of song enterprise and legislation, get admission to to quite a lot of internships and mentor systems, and abundant visitor audio system who’ve not too long ago integrated manufacturer Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins and BMI govt director, ingenious Shannon Sanders, a TSU alumna. Harry Fox Company consumer answers coordinator Dashawn Howard and Grammy-nominated manufacturer Dwane “Keywane” Wier are amongst different alums.

Tournament: In Might, the song enterprise accelerator program, which gives Black school scholars in Tennessee occupation sources to lend a hand them spoil into the {industry}, held an occasion at TSU in partnership with Amazon Track, Nashville Track Equality, the RIAA and Wasserman Track.

College of California, Los Angeles — Herb Alpert Faculty of Track
Los Angeles

Spurred through the luck of the UCLA Herb Alpert Faculty of Track’s song historical past and {industry} stage program and its song {industry} minor, the varsity q4 offered a big in song {industry}. The brand new program, which enhances the efficiency, composition, musicology and song education schemes already presented, supplies scholars with a excessive point of liberal arts integration to verify they grasp the talents wanted for a a success ingenious {industry} occupation. Categories immerse scholars in a spread of topics from information science for the song {industry} to song and activism, and internship and employment alternatives abound as the ones enrolled in this system get pleasure from the varsity’s relationships with an array of song firms. A big reward from former Warner Bros. Information chairman Mo Ostin, who died in 2022, funded building of the Evelyn and Mo Ostin Track Heart.

Speaker: Amy Davidman, founding father of and agent at TBA Company, not too long ago spoke with scholars on campus.

College of Colorado Denver
Denver

The college gives two path tracks for college students occupied with pursuing a occupation within the song {industry}: one for acting scholars and every other to give you the chops to paintings as managers, publishers, song supervisors and/or entrepreneurs. Scholars within the lattermost development take lessons analyzing song supervision and synch licensing, song publishing, song advertising, legislation and the song {industry}, artist control and extra. Moreover this yr, the Mechanical Licensing Collective appointed school member Dan Hodges as one in all its educator ambassadors to advise scholars at the significance of registering song with the MLC to gather interactive streaming royalties.

Partnership: The Nashville Songwriter Affiliation Global this previous yr introduced a bankruptcy on the college.

College of Miami — Frost Faculty of Track
Miami

Below director Serona Elton, whom the Track Industry Affiliation not too long ago named the primary song enterprise educator of the yr, Frost’s song {industry} program is increasing. It not too long ago introduced a bachelor of arts in song {industry} main for nonperformers, an addition to its well-established bachelor of song in song {industry} and grasp of arts in song {industry}. Along side its range of lessons and proximity to the Latin places of work of many main song firms, this system additionally gives quite a lot of student-run enterprises together with ’Cane Information, Cat 5 Track and Frost Sounds, in addition to a campus radio station, live performance manufacturing group, a lot of live performance halls and song {industry} scholar affiliation.

Route: Scholars in recorded-music operations know about A&R, manufacturing, distribution, advertising/promotion, licensing and royalties and use Chartmetric to investigate the intake in their favourite artists’ tracks.

College of North Texas — Faculty of Track
Denton, Texas

Choices abound at UNT’s Faculty of Track, positioned at the northern fringe of the Dallas-Citadel Price metroplex and the rustic’s biggest public-university song program. It gives levels from bachelor to doctoral ranges and is house to the sector’s first jazz research stage program, now in its seventy fifth yr. The college is consistently including school and lessons to the curriculum, presented absolutely on-line or in a hybrid structure, with choices starting from song management to acting arts control to traveling. The curriculum resulting in a grasp’s in song enterprise, introduced simply 3 years in the past, helps scholar objectives inside song generation and entrepreneurship. In 2021, the Yamaha Establishment of Excellence program integrated the UNT Faculty of Track in its inaugural checklist of 10 outstanding faculties and universities spotting abnormal dedication to innovation within the find out about of song.

Tournament: Julian Peterson, affiliate director at Gearbox Device and a composer, audio programmer, sound clothier and researcher, not too long ago met with scholars.

College of Rochester — Eastman Faculty of Track
Rochester, N.Y.

It’s all about flexibility on the College of Rochester’s Eastman Faculty. Scholars can earn a double stage, a minor focus or simply take lessons associated with their pursuits. Some of the choices, Eastman gives a grasp of arts in song management and a industrial song {industry} enjoy throughout the Beal Institute for Movie Track and Recent Media, the place scholars have alternatives to paintings with the Rochester Institute of Generation’s movie, animation and online game building colleges. The Electroacoustic Track Studios at Eastman introduces scholars to digital song applied sciences. And student-run ensembles supply industrial and song management abilities, together with the Empire Movie and Media Ensemble, a live-to-film ensemble, and OSSIA, the varsity’s student-run new song ensemble.

Alumnus: Eastman’s Beal Institute used to be named after its founder, alumnus Jeff Beal, a five-time Emmy-winning composer of movie and TV ratings. Beal is a widespread visitor speaker and scholars have traveled to Los Angeles to paintings with him for an immersive enjoy.

College of Southern California — Iovine and Younger Academy
Los Angeles

USC’s Iovine and Younger Academy innovators discussion board hosts leaders in numerous disciplines, industries and the humanities to provide and talk about issues dealing with society and to critique real-world tasks. Fresh visitors have integrated TOMS Footwear founder Blake Mycoskie. That’s only one approach the interdisciplinary-focused academy supplies a framework for college students within the song {industry} to review subjects from reimagining digital live performance occasions to development a brand new synthetic intelligence-driven song platform. Endowed through {industry} marketers Jimmy Iovine and Andre “Dr. Dre” Younger, the academy gives a bachelor of science in arts, generation and the enterprise of innovation and a grasp of science in built-in design, enterprise and generation.

Tournament: For the Masters of Scale ­podcast in June, Iovine spoke with Angela Ahrendts, former CEO of Burberry and previous senior vice chairman of Apple, about luck, motivation and schooling.

College of Southern California — Thornton Faculty of Track
Los Angeles

Shut ties with the L.A. song group are core to the DNA at USC Thornton, which gives each an undergraduate and 18-month grasp’s program within the song {industry}. Scholars get pleasure from an abundance of networking, internship and task alternatives throughout spaces reminiscent of traveling, advertising, branding, enterprise and legislation, and the varsity supplies a school room visitor checklist that not too long ago integrated Ali Harnell, international president/leader technique officer of Reside Country Girls. Collaboration and camaraderie also are emphasised amongst scholars who will someday sign up for an alums community that comes with DreamWorks Animation senior vice chairman of TV song Alex Nickson and Warner Information senior vice chairman of ingenious sync licensing Julia Betley.

Occasions: Thornton’s manufacturers discussion board has hosted audio system together with Merck Mercuriadis, founder and CEO of Hipgnosis Songs Fund, and Lee Zeidman, president of Crypto.com Enviornment, Peacock Theater and L.A. Reside.

William Paterson College
Wayne, N.J.

William Paterson College’s song and leisure industries program specializes in these days’s {industry} from an impartial artist and label standpoint. Lessons, together with the preferred Behind the scenes: The Industry of Traveling, center of attention on 3 key pillars of song source of revenue: stay, recording and publishing. This system has hosted visiting resident mavens together with Kate Hyman, former vice chairman of A&R for BMG, and Mark Robinson, senior vice chairman of song technique, enterprise and criminal affairs at Paramount. And whilst internships are a core guiding principle, scholars additionally get pleasure from {industry} pros who come to campus, together with Vydia co-president Jenna Gaudio in a contemporary talk over with.

Alums: Theresa Abou-Daoud, manufacturing assistant with Tyler, The Author, and Nathaniel Meyerowitz, affiliate supervisor of enjoy at Wasserman, are amongst contemporary graduates of this system.

This tale in the beginning gave the impression within the Oct. 7, 2023, factor of Billboard.