| Music schools are now becoming more diverse by | | | | offerings by adding more academic and technology |
| expanding their course offerings and majors to include | | | | programs. For instance, Chicago's Columbia College |
| music business, musical genres and especially music | | | | just recently launched the Contemporary Urban and |
| production and technology. Among these music | | | | Popular Music Program and awards a Bachelor's |
| schools, one of the hottest trends in music education is | | | | degree for students that are interested in producing, |
| in contemporary music and modern music production. | | | | composing and performing modern music. Ironically, this |
| Why? Music schools are looking for new ways to | | | | is the same degree awarded to students for classical |
| open their resources to a wider range of students. | | | | composition. |
| Especially in the aforementioned area. Technology is | | | | Many schools which started as traditional |
| changing the way many of today's leading musicians | | | | conservatories are now offering degrees in Music |
| compose, perform and produce. It is also changing the | | | | Business, Music Industry and Music Engineering |
| way in which music reaches audiences both in the | | | | Technology. Berklee College of Music and the |
| recorded and performance mediums. | | | | University of Miami's Frost School of Music were the |
| The country's leading music programs and even | | | | among the pioneers in these non-traditional fields of |
| traditional conservatories are taking notice. There is a | | | | music. Schools are offering these programs designed |
| reason for this. Schools are finding it necessary for | | | | for modern music production which are essential for |
| their sustainability to train students for the careers that | | | | sustainability and are using modern methods in order to |
| will exist 20 years from now. This includes going | | | | reach current and future students. |
| beyond the traditional classical curriculum and picking | | | | Music has been deeply affected by the enormous |
| up on ideas that have led to the emergence of | | | | change evolving in all forms of media. Every branch of |
| non-traditional music programs such as Berklee College | | | | the arts has and will be affected for years to come. |
| of Music and Musicians Institute. Many of today's jobs | | | | It's important that we embrace the future and what |
| a few years from now will have been replaced by | | | | technology has to offer in the field of music. With new |
| other things. Other careers in music will be invented or | | | | ideas come new possibilities and exciting opportunities. |
| explored. What these jobs or other careers will be, | | | | This emerging trend has not gone unnoticed and many |
| only time will tell. But colleges owe it to their students to | | | | music schools are now getting involved. Music colleges |
| make sure their needs are being met and that they | | | | owe it to their students to meet their current goals as |
| are truly prepared for a career in music. | | | | a musician and lead them in directions they may never |
| Traditional distinctions among types of music schools | | | | thought existed. |
| are becoming less prominent as schools increase their | | | | |