Music and Business double major

compmom
Sun, 07 Feb 2016 14:18:03 +0000

Lawrence is a great school, for academics, for its conservatory, and for double degrees. However, it does not have undergrad business.

If business is not the main criterion, there are many options for school with conservatory or music school, and the double degree option. Oberlin, Lawrence, Bard (which requires conservatory students to get double degrees), Tufts/NEC, Harvard/NEC (MM), Ithaca, Michigan, Eastman/Rochester, Peabody/John Hopkins, many others.

So if the best option is double degree and a business program is not a requirement, there are a lot of choices.

The schools I know of with business undergrad programs include U. of Penn. and Cornell, where music could be pursued in a few different ways. Others can suggest more. Babson is a college focused on business but near music opportunities in Boston.

Goucher, BU and UMass Amherst are schools I know of with grad arts management programs. There are of course many more and others can chime in on that too. But doing an internship, like clarinet13mom’s daughter, can really help to clarify things and a straight arts management - or business- degree may not be the best route, or even necessary.

Lots to think about!