<p>That is an excellent list with which to start your research. Just looking up a handful of the names I immediately recognized, I see that those folks went to some very well known programs - Juilliard, Stanford, Berklee, Oxford, Royal College of Music (London), University of Southern California and so on. Note that not all of them started out as composition majors. Giacchino, for example, who is one of the most successful composers in film and TV these days, majored in film production and minored in history at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, but also studied composition at the Evening Division at Juilliard. Others did the music degree first then gravitated toward TV/film/game scoring. It seems that those who are the most successful in that business come from a wide variety of backgrounds, but they tend to be versatile in many different musical styles and they integrate knowledge across several different disciplines. </p>
<p>I don’t know if you have the academic stats for it, but one program that is frequently overlooked is the music department at MIT (yes, that MIT). They do not require auditions and will accept a portfolio if you care to provide one but will only consider it as part of your application package if they think it will help your case. I have a friend who graduated with a music degree from there and he is very good indeed at what he does. Check out <a href=“Massachusetts Institute of Technology |”>Massachusetts Institute of Technology |; for more info. You may also be interested in their free OpenCourseWare at <a href=“http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/av/#MusicandTheaterArts[/url]”>http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/courses/av/#MusicandTheaterArts</a></p>