Musical Theatre Double Major

KatMT
Thu, 15 Dec 2016 21:34:00 +0000

I teach in an auditioned, professionally focused BA MT program. We do have some students who double major and graduate in 4 years, particularly those that come in with AP, IB, dual enrollment. It is possible, but difficult, and sometimes some of the students do have to pass up opportunities to take additional recommended training classes that they want to take, or dial back on participation in productions. Others are able to manage it, some take an extra year or semester… some eventually drop the other major in order to graduate on time.

It really can depend on the student, and the 2nd major they are trying to complete, some majors are less credit intensive and have more flexibility than others.

As a side note, I am not sure what it is like at other schools, but where I teach Pre-Law and Pre-PT are not majors, but professional school prep programs with suggested course work and pre-professiona school advising. Both require post undergraduate school education. I know some of our Dance majors are also Pre-PT, so I think that would be doable here. I looked at Pre-Law those additional courses would also be doable here because there is a lot of fllexibility.

You may want to spend some time looking at different schools that interest you in order to get a sense of what might be possible at which schools.