<p>My son just started at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in Rochester NY. He is going for Production. He is planning on minoring in Music Technology because he would love to produce music videos. He plays the trumpet and auditioned for and made the Jazz band. RIT has several music groups both vocal and instrumental, they have a few different minors in music and the students are supposed to either minor or have a concentration is some area - they can do anything: english, music, etc.
He is absolutely thrilled with the program, and since Sept 5th, has already done 2 short films (on “real” film) and animated something for a beginning animation class they all have to take. He has also helped 2 weekends on a Senior thesis shoot and landed a job on campus helping to broadcast the home sports games.
RIT is a co-op school, but not really for film. They can do internships, but typically they are not paid. They are trying to start a program out in LA, where the kids can go for a semester and actually take classes taught by RIT (so they keep up with the course sequences they need to graduate), and do internships.
They have a mentor-mentee program where they assign freshmen to a senior film student. It is all about making connections!
He is in the Honors program and they do some special Film things too, including some type of trip every year, but I don’t have a lot of details about that.
I am currently looking for colleges for S2, also a Junior, but this time we are looking for Criminal Justice and getting recruited for soccer! (Already went through Physician Assistant with D1 (also RIT), Music Ed with D2 (Mansfield University of PA), film with S1).
Good luck!</p>