Most college BA programs for music majors do not require an audtion. You apply to the college and then declare a music major in sophomore year. A general music major (as opposed to a BM, or sometimes BA, in performance) will mean studying music history, theory/aural skills (with some piano skills involved), composition, ethnomusicology, and some music technology. Most college programs are classical in their orientation, but there are exceptions.
If you want to do “electronic music production,” some programs do require auditions or portfolio. The focus of “electronic music” varies: some programs are very much geared to composers, some are more geared to computer science or engineering, for instance.
If you google “music production programs” in a certain state, lists will come up. I have done this for California and it worked well. Check each school to see what admissions requirements and procedures are.
Others on here know more about this area than I do. Ordinarily I would mention Hartt at U. of Hartford, U. of Michigan, UMass Lowell, NYU, Berklee, Belmont,Cal Arts and USC Thornton. But many of those have auditions or portfolio requirements.
Check out Columbia College in Chicago. http://www.colum.edu/academics/index.html No audition or portfolio required (though you can choose to submit one). They accept people as “provisional candidates” in some areas. Columbia has courses for sound engineering, digital production, contemporary and urban music, and other areas of music and/or media arts.
There are many programs in the country though, including some state colleges. If you want to let us know the state(s) you are most interested in, we could look into it for you.
And honestly, going to most colleges for music would entail some coursework in music technology, though sometimes in the context of composition. You could even major in something else and still take classes in the area you are interested in, if you meet prerequisites.
You might want to look into a summer program. There is another thread in the forum right now for someone with similar interests, entitled “Oberlin Sonic Arts.” And another thread by someone trying to decide between two Tennessee music production programs…