Wow, lots of music going on at Luther, @bridgenail! Nice addition to the list.
So, for the sake of those who may stumble upon this thread in their future searches, here’s the full list so far of liberal arts colleges that offer a B.M. I’m going to give Rollins and Luther honorary status, since they clearly have huge music departments, even though they don’t actually offer a B.M. Some of these schools have a true conservatory and others do not. In the interests of keeping things consistent with the thread title, I’m going to leave off schools like Ithaca that are a bit too big to really qualify as an LAC, but I am going to include schools that are for all intents and purposes LACs, even though they may classify themselves as regional universities, instead (like Trinity U).
This next bit may be somewhat more controversial, but some future travelers may be looking, as we are, for schools that are pretty serious about academics as well. So as a very rough indicator of academic rigor, I’m also including the median math + critical reading SAT scores and 5 year grad rates of each school, as reported by princetonreview:
Bard 1280 74%
Concordia College ? ?
Depauw 1200 80%
Furman 1240 84%
Gettysburg 1280 83%
Lawrence U 1280 78%
Luther 1090 76%
Oberlin 1360 86%
U of the Pacific 1180 62%
U of Puget Sound 1220 75%
U of Redlands 1130 71%
Rollins 1190 70%
Southwestern U 1160 73%
St. Olaf 1260 88%
Stetson U 1170 60%
Susquehanna 1120 75%
Trinity U 1260 80%
Wheaton (IL) 1300 88%
Willamette 1200 75%
College of Wooster 1210 75%
All of the above (with the exception of Rollins and Luther) offer a B.M. Here’s a number of other LAC’s I’ve seen mentioned here or elsewhere as having strong music departments that do not offer a B.M.:
Williams
Vassar
Wesleyan
Brandeis
Skidmore
Davidson
Clark U
Hope someone finds that helpful!