<p>If you are studying performance at a School of Music at a University I do not suspect you’d find the practice demands much different than a conservatory, but you will also be counseled by the SOM not to take a lot of competing academic courses. To meet BMUS requirements you would, in that setting, have a 17 or 18 credit courseload with an average of 2-3 hrs per credit in weekly workload (in addition to class time). Of those, it is most likely than only 3 credits (eg. 1 course) would be a traditionally “academic” course (eg. English, Calc). In the words of the registrar at my son’s university SOM, where he is pursuing a dual degree (hence the advice due to unusually onerous grad requirements) “academic courses can really interfere with the professional study of music…typically we tell students to get whatever required credits they can during summer sessions here or home at a community college and then transfer the credits in.” Part of it is a purely scheduling issue and part is the workload/practice/rehearsal/performance phenom.</p>