<p>The Tufts/NEC program is highly competitive with only a handful of students being accepted each year. In addition, it is my understanding that this is a five year program and that the first two years do not involve much music work at NEC but rather are mostly Tufts courses. The music courses come in later. I also thought that this was an arrangement for engineering/music and not all majors offered by Tufts, but I could be wrong about that. The trip from Tufts to NEC is not an easy one…time consuming and not something one would do more than once in a day. But I will also say that the trip from Peabody to JHU main campus isn’t all that easy, nor is the trip from Eastman to the main U Rochester campus. All of these programs make it sound like doing work at both divisions or institutions is easy, but from what I’ve heard from students is that it is not.</p>