<p>AtomicGirl, I might make a slight distinction between sound engineering/recording arts and “music industry” programs, some of which have overlap and some of which don’t in terms of true engineering level work versus industry skill/business. Since your son is also a performer, is he interested in music technology and contemporary composition as well? When I started down this path with my son a few years ago, I found it all very confusing. I’ll give you the broad brush strokes of the directions we looked – but know that I may be in error regarding the flavor of straight industry programs. Eventually, my son and I determined that if a program was not related to a strong school of music with music pre-reqs, then it wouldn’t suit his purposes.</p>
<p>At any rate, here are a few programs known to me that might be of interest to you:
• Bsc Recording Arts at Jacobs School of Music, Indianna U. – very reputable program for R/A, by portfolio that includes your own music. Competitive.
• Slightly different flavor - Clive Davis program at Tisch NYU – more popular producer/artist/producer program that includes recording and some aspects of music business and promotion. By portfolio, accepts about 1 in 10 applicants, for average of 30/year. Not part of NYU’s school of music, however, which I found odd.
• My own son is at University of Michigan, where through the School of Music you can take a combined ENG degree in the Performing Arts Technology program. Flexible degree with a stream designed for performers as well; also for engineers (if your s. is strong in things such as Calc – UM’s college of engineering is not for feint of heart 
as well as electronic composers and multimedia production. They take about 4 students per division for 16/yr. All streams are competitive but the ENG degree is phenomenally competitive (know a kid with a 3.9 unweighted and 35 ACT who was rejected – presumably based on talent assessment). Also note that you apply for the specific stream right from the start – have to reapply if you want to switch streams.
•University of Miami has a well-regarded recording/engineering degree, as does Belmont in Nashville and Colorado U. (Many would say Belmont is the best for straight industry production.)
•USC has a music industry degree where you can stream in business or technology and is a little similar to UMich in that it can cater to performers, producers/eng etc. The USC program also has similar prereqs such as music theory, musicology, keyboard etc. if your son wants a good grounding that way (which is what I like about UMich).</p>
<p>Then there are a ton of schools with music technology degrees distinct from industry where the emphasis can indeed be recording arts from the vantage of a performing musician but I’ve found no two programs are alike in this area. NYU’s Steinhardt School of Music and Oberlin Conservatory’s Tiamara program come to mind as top candidates. </p>
<p>Also noteworthy is McGill in Montreal, which is awesome for production but which has eliminated its undergrad in technology (now a hybrid with performance, I believe) but remains a strong grad program. Schulick is a strong music school there.</p>
<p>Hope that gives you somewhere to start. Omissions are due to pure ignorance on my part as we did not research every program on the planet
Cheers,
K</p>