<p>My S is going to major in Audio Engineering at Greenville College in Illinois. We are from CA, and after much research thought the best program in all around sound education in CA was Cal State Dominguez Hills. If you really want to stay in CA, they would be good to consider. But we did find that the better schools were outside CA. We were worried that CSUDH might not be committed to continuing their program with all the budget constraints of the state, but they just refurbished their recording studio and spent 90K on their board. We took that to mean that they are committed to continuing.</p>
<p>They have good collaborative assignments that students of different majors work on. Here’s the link: [College</a> of Arts and Humanities](<a href=“http://cah.csudh.edu/digitalmedia/]College”>http://cah.csudh.edu/digitalmedia/)</p>
<p>Outside of CA, we liked Texas State, San Marcos, University of Michigan, Indiana University and Greenville. We also liked Miami, but felt that it might be too much a reach in both academics and finances. We looked more seriously at programs that didn’t need auditions (exception Texas State) because it had been awhile since my son had instruction in piano. My son’s biggest criteria for schools was whether they started you in your sound classes from your freshman year. (CSUDH doesn’t do this, but he could commute to school, so very affordable - why it made list.)</p>
<p>The links that violadad gave out were wonderful for us, I hope they are for you too. My son ended up picking Greenville because they had 5 recording studios to do homework in and are a small school, so you end up with lots of studio time. He loved the environment when he visited. It is a Christian school, but that was only a selling point after he saw the program there. I was impressed that they were not requiring a certain laptop for the major, since the homework needs to be done in the studio. The professor said that he could only edit one track on a laptop, and his assignments would require surround sound, etc. He showed us an assignment that my S was so excited to be able to do when he gets there. We sat in a lecture and my S understood it, but I only partially did.</p>
<p>Best of Luck to you :)</p>