Music school transfer

DadTwoGirls
Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:53:24 +0000

It wasn’t classical music. However, I used to have a guitar teacher who had started at the Berklee College of Music. After two years he ran out of money. He transferred to U.Mass Lowell in-state. He was quite good at guitar and I think that he got a merit scholarship at U.Mass, in addition to being in-state and close enough that he could live at home.

He did this for financial reasons. He said that most of his credits did not transfer. I think that he ended up taking five years in total to get his bachelor’s degree.

I am pretty sure that he was good enough both at music, and as an academic student, that getting accepted to U.Mass Lowell as a transfer student was not all that hard for him. I always assumed that he auditioned to transfer, but that would not have been a problem for him at all, and travel between Berklee in Boston and U.Mass Lowell is also not all that hard.

At the time that he was my teacher, he already had his BM but was still trying to pay off his education loans. He would have been way better off if he had just started at U.Mass Lowell in the first place. Berklee is a great college of music. One daughter took a couple of summer classes there, liked it, and learnt quite a bit. A more recent guitar teacher was getting a master’s there and loved it. However, finances matter and two of the U.Mass’s (Lowell and Amherst) are quite good for music particularly if you are in-state and find them relatively affordable.