22 Music Business Preparatory Programs

The Music Business program at Musicians Institute (MI) provides aspiring music industry professionals with practical knowledge, real-world experience, and valuable industry connections. This offers students unparalleled access to the music industry while developing the expertise needed to succeed.

Our music business program is a 12-week certificate program designed to fast track you through the music industry's complexities. Pull back the curtain on a hit song, a best-selling record, and a sold-out tour, and you’ll find a vast team of music business professionals who made it all happen.

The Certificate of Completion (CCL) in Music Business I is designed to provide aspiring music industry professionals with a broad background in music management, production, and entrepreneurship activities. The program combines foundational and applied learning experiences to help students gain a strategic understanding of commercial music as both an art and profession. There is a Certificate of Completion (CCL) in Music Business II available as well as an Associate in Applied Science (AAS) in Music Industries: Music Business.

Our live, instructor-led, online music business program is a 36-week diploma program. If you’re ready to take a deep dive and discover how the entertainment industry really operates, this program might be the perfect fit for you.

If you’re going to be successful as a record executive, label owner or band manager, you really need to be smart and deliberate regarding your choice of music school. There are many options out there, but many schools charge far too much money and don’t offer any real connection to the music industry itself.

Music at Central Community College is open to students of all majors wishing to continue their passion for music beyond high school. Available Opportunities include band, choir, private lessons, and other music classes, and the ability to transfer credit toward most degrees.

Since the founding of Midland College’s Allison Fine Arts Building in 1978, our music program has offered a full range of courses and performing opportunities. The Department of Music welcomes students from any field of study to participate in one or more of our music ensembles, history, appreciation, instrumental, theory and/or vocal music courses.

The music certificate is a one-year program that provides a solid foundation in music for those wanting to know more about the subject.

The College has chosen the AQA Music A Level Music programme as it follows on seamlessly from the AQA GCSE course we offer. It is also possible to take AS Level Music and is a perfect accompaniment to other A Level Subjects. The AS Level can be taken on its own, but can then be developed into the full A Level Music by a further year at the College, as both the AS and A Level courses follow the same curriculum.

If you want to gain the musicianship and business skills to work as a professional musician or vocalist, then this foundation degree offered in partnership with Nottingham Trent University is for you!

Who is this course for? *Leading to UAL Level 3 Diploma in Music Performance and Production This course has been designed for students who wish to increase their skills, knowledge and understanding of music production, enabling them to progress to further study and training in a range of music performance and production disciplines.

The Associate of Arts program in Music Producing & Recording is a 9 quarter part-time Professional Degree program.

The Herb Alpert Music Center at Los Angeles City College offers a streamlined curriculum to create a transfer-ready, work-ready, and enriched student community through the Associate in Arts (AA-T) transfer degree that guarantees transfer to four-year CSU institutions, the Associate of Arts (AA) degree in Music, skill-building certificates, and general music education. Our dedicated and experienced faculty teach distinct and creative courses in theory, musicianship, appreciation, history, technology, performance, and techniques for students at all levels.

Music is an important part of life at the College. It is an inclusive activity and an academic subject throughout all years of the College, delivering the expertise of practicing professional musicians to hone the talents of the pupils from Reception to the Upper Sixth.

Cape Audio College has always been at the cutting edge of the South African music industry, and with this course, we aim to continue with this legacy.