3 of my top 10 colleges

By: Joselin Vazquez

The Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business
(Belmont University, Nashville)

Undergraduate tuition and

fees: 31,300 USD (2017)

Acceptance rate: 80%

(2015)
● nine majors under the Bachelor of
Typical ACT scores: 23-29 Music
● the Bachelor of Fine Arts in
(2014) Musical Theatre
● the Bachelor of Arts with a Major
Total enrollment: 7,771 in Music
● Music Minor
(2016)
USC Thornton School of Music

● Degrees offered
○ Bachelor of Science
○ Master of Science
○ Minor in Music Industry
● program includes:
○ artist management, the record
industry, music publishing, music
supervision, radio, and live promotion ● The school gets its name in honor
and production. of a $25 million gift by Flora L.
Thornton in 1999.
● master’s degree programs are focused on
● Undergraduate tuition and fees:
Arts Leadership, Community Music, 42,162 USD (2011)
Contemporary Teaching Practice, Screen ● Total enrollment: 1,072 (2011)
Scoring, and the Music Industry
Berklee College of Music (College in Boston, Massachusetts)

Acceptance rate: 32% (2015) ● Majors

○ Composition
Undergraduate tuition and fees: 41,530 USD ○ Contemporary Writing and
(2017) Production
○ Electronic Production and
Design
Mascot: Mingus the Jazz Cat ○ Film Scoring
○ Jazz Composition
Total enrollment: 6,405 (2016) ○ Music Business/ Management
○ Music Education
Graduation rate: 49.2% (2014) ○ Music Production and
Engineering
○ Music Therapy
○ Performance
○ Professional Music
○ Songwriting