<p>I’m a senior in high school, and from what I’ve heard, Vocal Performance and Nursing are nearly impossible to study at the same time. I’m torn between the two. I sing arias and compete in competitions, classical. Is there a college that has a really strong vocal performance program as well as nursing?</p>
<p>The University of Michigan is outstanding at both.</p>
<p>Please spend some time in the music major forum and read the post here <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/258796-so-you-want-music-major-one-familys-experience.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/music-major/258796-so-you-want-music-major-one-familys-experience.html</a> as an overview.</p>
<p>A performance program (typically a BM, but there are BA variants) and a science based second major are both time and credit intensive degrees. Scheduling conflicts will abound, as will conflicts between required ensemble commitments and lab courses. It’s doable, but few will complete such a task, and even then expect it to take at least five years. </p>
<p>Plenty of “music and” threads on the music forum accessible via searching, and I’d be happy to point them out. Spend some time there if you’re serious, and you’ll get some feedback from some of the parents/students in some of the top combined programs available.</p>
<p>Don’t a lot of BSN programs require classes and clinicals that run 8-5 every day?</p>
<p>NYU? 10 char</p>
<p>If you are willing to go to a LAC, St Olaf in Northfield MN has both. Their vocal music program is known nationally. Their nursing program is well thought of in our area.</p>
<p>Here is the course catalog for the nursing program: [St</a>. Olaf College | Academic Catalog 2009-10](<a href=“St. Olaf College < St. Olaf College”>St. Olaf College < St. Olaf College)</p>
<p>Here is info on vocal studies at St Olaf: [St</a>. Olaf College | Academic Catalog 2009-10](<a href=“St. Olaf College < St. Olaf College”>St. Olaf College < St. Olaf College)</p>
<p>Catholic University in Washington DC</p>
<p>I also agree with U of M.</p>
<p>Two smaller, less renowned schools with both majors would be Western Michigan and Grand Valley State University. My D has friends in either but not both majors at these schools.</p>
<p>I don’t know if its ever been done but, theoretically, Johns Hopkins has one of the top nursing schools and one of the top opera departments at Peabody. If you were admitted to Peabody as a freshman, you could take the basic science courses required for nursing by cross registering at the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and then apply to Johns Hopkins Nursing as an upperclassman. I highly doubt that you could complete both degrees in four years, however. Both the clinical nursing curriculum and the requirements for a performance degree at Peabody are very demanding. I think it is possible to do both, but it would not be for the feint of heart. Check it out. <a href=“Home | Johns Hopkins University”>Home | Johns Hopkins University; <a href=“http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/voice[/url]”>http://www.peabody.jhu.edu/voice</a></p>
<p>Unwritten - A B.Mus. program in Vocal Performance will require 70-100 hours out of the 120 academic hours in your undergraduate degree. The last two days of a BSN, as noted above, will take all day, every day. If you wanted to pursue both (and perhaps be the only person in history to do so), you’d probably be earning one undergrad degree and then starting over again to earn a second degree consecutively, not concurrently. But a B.Mus. usually leads to a Masters of Music in a conservatory-level program, while a BSN leads to employment in a medical position for which you may not be as competitive after several years have passed with no professional nursing experience. It’s just not realistic to pursue both.</p>
<p>However, if you’re determined to try, I would guess that the approach would be to pursue a Nursing degree while studying with a voice teacher on the side. Then you could be earning a living while deciding whether to pursue vocal performance degrees in your 20s, which is the time at which the human vocal mechanism matures.</p>
<p>I got my BSN from a state u. that also has a good music dept. One of my good friends fr. h.s was a music major there. We lived in the same dorm. We virtually never saw each other. She was always in the music building and I was back and forth at clinicals.
I don’t see how anyone could possibly do both at the same time.</p>
<p>gadad *The last two days of a BSN, as noted above, will take all day, every day. *</p>
<p>I think you meant to write, the last two YEARS of a BSN… :)</p>
<p>University of Rochester - Eastman Conservatory & School of Nursing. I know that Rochester generally has a 5 year program for co-admittees to the College of Arts & Sciences or School of Engineering and Eastman; not sure about the School of Nursing. You could call and ask.</p>
<p>Another way to go about your preferences may be to do the regular 5 year Eastman/Rochester program as a science major and then get your nursing degree post-graduate.</p>