Liberal Arts/Music double major schools

nycm
Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:35:05 +0000

It will be a good idea to find out how many music performances majors at a school are doing double degrees because that will give you some idea of just how flexible, manageable, do-able the program will be. We found Oberlin, Northwestern and UMich very friendly to doubles, Rice was NOT…many Shepard teachers don’t allow their students to do double degrees; Eastman-Rochester is also fairly difficult. You will compound the difficulty if you try for a double at two separate schools (NEC-Tufts, Columbia- Julliard) even if you do manage to get into their programs.
Also, be careful, most music PERFORMANCE degree programs (BM) don’t really include double MAJOR options, but rather involve double -DEGREE programs with a BM and BA. AND most double degrees really require 5 years.