<p>LAC’s are almost always undergraduate only; few have very large music departments even for their undergraduates. Mills College has a graduate program in composition (MA), and is an LAC-size, all women at the undergraduate level but coed grad - Milhaud was there years ago. On the whole, though, you would be looking at research universities. The top graduate schools for musicology (which generally is comprised of music history, composition, and ethnomusicology, and, east of the Rockies, music theory - for some reason none of the western colleges offer theory as a separate discipline) include UC Berkeley, Columbia, Princeton, U of Chicago, Penn, Cornell, Yale, Harvard, UCLA, Stanford, U Michigan; McGill in Montreal is also a strong program. There are a few relevant posts in the “graduate school” forum on the subject. The programs take around 7 years to finish a PhD, though composition is on a different trajectory.</p>