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Ready to launch your career in the music business? Bradley’s Music & Entertainment Industry degree is designed just for you—whether or not you have a background in music. This program gives you the tools and knowledge to break into the exciting world of the music industry, with no music audition required for admission. If you’ve got a passion for music and entertainment, we’ll help you turn that passion into a career.

Experiential Learning

From the first day on campus, you’ll begin career preparation with classes in interactive media, audio and video production, and music promotions. Like our Music Business majors, you’ll take courses in business basics such as accounting, marketing, and finance and then merge these with music industry classes that will teach you the basics of copyright, music licensing, live entertainment, and music with movies and television.

Outside the classroom you’ll have opportunities to intern with music companies and organizations around the country.

Learn professional recording techniques and software programs
Work in our student-managed Hilltop Studios
Study in Hollywood as part of our Hollywood Semester

Program Details

Required Courses – 64 hrs.

IM 113: Introduction to Interactive Media (3 hrs.)
COM 101: Survey of Communication (3 hrs.)
COM 112: Introduction to Media Productions (3 hrs.)
COM 201: Journalistic Writing (3 hrs.)
COM 204: Audio Production (3 hrs.)
COM 314: Introduction to Video: Studio Production (3 hrs.)
or COM 335: Introduction to Video: Field Production (3 hrs.)
MUS 101: Introduction to Music Business (3 hrs.)
MUS 120: Music Industry Seminar (1) – 4 hrs.
MUS 320: Advanced Music Industry Seminar (1) (2 hrs.)
MUS 201: Moguls in Music (3 hrs.)
MUS 204: Music Promotions Practicum (.5) (2 hrs.)
MUS 303: Music Products Industry (3 hrs.)
MUS 304: Music Licensing and Contracts (3 hrs.)
MUS 307: Agency and Fine Arts Administration (3 hrs.)
MUS 312: Music in Media (3 hrs.)
CFA 301: Cooperative Education/Internship in Communications and Fine Arts (2-6 hrs.)
ECO 100: Introduction to Economics (3 hrs.)
or ECO 221: Principles of Microeconomics (3 hrs.)
ATG 157: Accounting Principles-Financial (3 hrs.)
ML 350: Managing for Results in Organizations (3 hrs.)
FIN 322: Business Finance (3 hrs.)
MTG 304: Professional Selling (3 hrs.)
MTG 315: Principles of Marketing (3 hrs.)

Career Opportunities

Graduates find professional paths as music producers, mixing engineers, booking agents, music festival organizers, and artist managers.

You’ll find a future in the music and entertainment industry with

Record labels
Publishing companies
Entertainment venues and festivals
Music management companies
Movie music supervision companies

Minors

The 21-credit Jazz Studies Minor is open to all students, without audition. It will strengthen your understanding and performance of jazz through ensemble participation, music theory, jazz improvisation, jazz composition and arranging, and American music history.

This minor is easily paired with majors across campus.

The music minor, open to all students by audition, strengthens your understanding and performance of music through individual vocal or instrumental lessons in the area you select and courses in theory, history, keyboard skills, and ear-training.

You’ll also participate in one of the music department’s 15 ensembles. Designed for personal growth or career preparation, the minor can easily be paired with majors from across the university.

The 18-credit hour music industry minor is open to any student, regardless of major, with no audition requirement. You’ll be immersed in courses representing all facets of the music industry.

Electives allow you to focus on specific disciplines or you may complete the minor as part of the Hollywood Semester program.

This 20-hour minor, open to all students, includes courses in Acting, Piano, Music Theory, and Ear Training/Sight Singing. Acting the Song and History of American Musical Theatre. You’ll be involved in Theatre Arts productions through our Practicum program, and you’ll work closely with a Theatre Arts advisor, to keep you on track.

This minor pairs well with majors in Music, Theatre Arts, communication, TV arts, creative writing, and other majors within the fine arts, or the liberal arts and sciences.