Good universities to study music in the U.S.?

Hello everyone! I'm not only a music student but also a Marketing student. I try to keep up with both studies, of course not as fast as if I did only one of them.

The thing is: at the university where I study Marketing, I get the chance to be part of an exchange program and study at an American university for one semester (I'm Argentinian, in case you didn't know). I would like, then, to go to a university that has good musical studies. San Diego State is one of the choices I can pick from, and it seems to be a good place to study, is it? The list is longer though.

So well, the question is: Do you know, from the following list of universities, which of them would be a good place to study music?

Here's the list:

EXCELLENT CHANCE OF PLACEMENT

Agnes Scott College (Georgia)

Emporia State University (Kansas)

Hendrix College (Arkansas)

Louisiana State University (Louisiana)

Middle Tennessee State (Tennessee)

Nebraska Wesleyan University (Nebraska)

University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez (Puerto Rico)

University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico)

VERY GOOD CHANCE OF PLACEMENT

Bellarmine University (Kentucky)

East Tennessee State University (Tennessee)

Jamestown College (North Dakota)

Maryville College (Tennessee)

Minot State University (North Dakota)

North Carolina Consortium (must be listed as one of top three choices)

NC-Appalachian State

NC-Central University

NC-East Carolina

NC-NC State

NC-NCAT

NC-UNC Asheville

NC-UNC Charlotte

NC-UNC Greensboro

NC-UNC Pembroke

NC-UNC Wilmington

NC-Western Carolina

NC-Winston-Salem

Truman State University (Missouri)

University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Main Campus) (Tennessee)

University of Vermont (Vermont)

GOOD CHANCE OF PLACEMENT

Ball State University (Indiana)

Butler University (Indiana)

Central Washington University (Washington)

Creighton University (Nebraska)

Edgewood College (Wisconsin)

Fort Hays State University (Kansas)

Georgia Consortium (must be listed as one of top three choices)

GA-Armstrong Atlantic (Georgia)

GA-Columbus (Georgia)

GA-GCSU (Georgia)

GA-Georgia Southern (Georgia)

GA-Kennesaw (Georgia)

GA-North Georgia (Georgia)

GA-Valdosta (Georgia)

GA-West Georgia (Georgia)

Indiana State University (Indiana)

Marshall University (West Virginia)

Missouri Consortium

University of Central Missouri (Missouri)

Northwest Missouri State University (Missouri)

New Mexico State University (New Mexico)

Northwestern State University of Louisiana (Louisiana)

Roanoke College (Virginia)

University of Alaska Southeast (Alaska)

University of Montana (Montana)

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (Tennessee)

University of Texas at El Paso (Texas)

Utah State University (Utah)

West Virginia University (West Virginia)

Whitworth University (Washington)

Wichita State University (Kansas)

Willamette University (Oregon)

I only put those with good chances of placement, but so far San Diego is my first choice

Thank you for replying! Everything you can add is a plus, and I really apreciate it!

PD: Sorry if the thread is misplaced, I didn't know where to put it.

Cheers

Out of ALL those schools, I would really only recommend University of Texas and UNC-Greensboro for music.

Great! Thank you so much! Really, thanks for the effort of reading all and recommending.

By the way, what makes them better than the rest?

All those other schools are pretty much no names, no where close to being considered top in the country in anything that I'm aware of.

All those other schools are pretty much no names, no where close to being considered top in the country in anything that I'm aware of.

Well that's probably the reason why we get to go there :(

Finally I will be applying for San Diego State University as first choice. Do you know anything about music there?

Thanks a lot!

Diego.

Um the Hartt School from the University of Hartford in Connecticut is a very good school. Juilliard obviously. Ithaca School of Music in Ithaca New York, Manhattan school of music. University of Indiana is a very good composition school. That is the school that the concert band composer Samuel Hazo graduated from.

Um the Hartt School from the University of Hartford in Connecticut is a very good school. Juilliard obviously. Ithaca School of Music in Ithaca New York, Manhattan school of music. University of Indiana is a very good composition school. That is the school that the concert band composer Samuel Hazo graduated from.

Someone didn't read the first post ... :whistling:

That is the school that the concert band composer Samuel Hazo graduated from.

No he didn't. Also, Hazo? Yuck

oh shoot i forgot he graduated from duquesne univ. shoot. sorry. I was getting it confused with my teacher saying something about going to school where he played something by him. Samuel Hazo is amazing. The guy's lyricism and versatility of pieces is quite extraordinary.

oh shoot i forgot he graduated from duquesne univ. shoot. sorry. I was getting it confused with my teacher saying something about going to school where he played something by him. Samuel Hazo is amazing. The guy's lyricism and versatility of pieces is quite extraordinary.

sure