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# Billboard Names Top Music Business Schools in the World
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/billboard-names-top-music-business-schools-in-the-world/
- Published: 2025-11-05T15:13:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-04T16:15:15.000Z
- Description: Billboard has released its 2025 annual roundup of top music business schools globally. It features top players like Berklee, Belmont, MTSU, Loyola, NYU-Tish, and University of Rochester’s Eastman. But this year’s list goes deeper and includes affordable public universities, HBCUs, and schools outsid
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Music Business, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

Billboard has released its 2025 annual roundup of top music businessschools globally. It features top players like Berklee, Belmont, MTSU, Loyola, NYU-Tish, and University of Rochester’s Eastman. But this year’s list goes deeper and includes affordable public universities, HBCUs, and schools outside major industry hubs.

![Top Music Business Schools](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/billboard-logo-b-20-billboard-1548-1024x677-1.jpg)

Billboard offers **[detailed profiles](https://www.billboard.com/pro/top-music-business-schools-2025-list/?ref=hypebot.com)** of each school that include standout courses, facilities, internships, guest speakers, and famous alumni.

There are some notable new trends in what many of the top music business schools offer:

- **Production + business under one roof:** many programs bake in recording/engineering alongside contracts, A&R, marketing, data, AI.
- **Real-world labs:** student-run labels (VoVe, Red Oak, Blue Hawk, Green Line, ’Cane Records), venue management (e.g., Loyola’s Gasa Gasa), and large-scale festival work (BPMI Live, Stillystock).
- **Dolby Atmos/immersive audio** facilities popping up (Belmont, LIU Roc Nation, Delta State, Abbey Road Institute).
- **Heavy guest access & pipelines:** execs from majors, PROs, agencies; frequent NYC/LA industry trips; co-ops/internships that often convert to jobs.
- **Equity & access:** continued spotlight on HBCUs (Howard, Tennessee State); public options expanded.
- **AI, data, finance:** explicit coursework on AI (American), valuation/finance (NYU Steinhardt), music & data (UCLA).

![Billboard Top Music Business Schools](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/billboard-logo-big-b-2015-billboard-650-compressed-1.png)

### Billboard’s Top Music Business Schools in the World

Alphabetical by school name with locations

- Abbey Road Institute — London
- American University — Washington, D.C.
- Auburn University — Auburn, Ala.
- Baldwin Wallace University — Berea, Ohio
- Belmont University (Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business) — Nashville, Tenn.
- Berklee College of Music — Boston, Mass.
- Berklee College of Music (Valencia Campus) — Valencia, Spain
- BIMM University (BIMM Music Institute) — London
- BRIT School, The — Croydon, England
- California Institute of the Arts (Herb Alpert School of Music) — Valencia, Calif.
- California State University, Northridge — Northridge, Calif.
- Delta State University (Delta Music Institute) — Cleveland, Miss.
- Drexel University (Westphal College of Media Arts and Design) — Philadelphia, Pa.
- Full Sail University — Winter Park, Fla.
- Hofstra University — Hempstead, N.Y.
- Howard University (The Warner Music/Blavatnik Center for Music Business) — Washington, D.C.
- Kennesaw State University (The Joel A. Katz Music and Entertainment Business Program) — Kennesaw, Ga.
- Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts — Liverpool, England
- Long Island University (The Roc Nation School of Music, Sports and Entertainment) — Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Los Angeles College of Music — Los Angeles, Calif.
- Los Angeles Film School (The Los Angeles Recording School) — Los Angeles, Calif.
- Loyola University (School of Music & Theatre Professions) — New Orleans, La.
- Middle Tennessee State University (Scott Borchetta College of Media and Entertainment) — Murfreesboro, Tenn.
- Monmouth University — West Long Branch, N.J.
- New York University (Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development) — New York, N.Y.
- New York University (Tisch School of the Arts, Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music) — New York, N.Y.
- Northeastern University (College of Arts, Music and Design) — Boston, Mass.
- Occidental College (The John Branca Institute for Music) — Los Angeles, Calif.
- Oklahoma State University (Greenwood School of Music) — Stillwater, Okla.
- Rhodes College (Mike Curb Institute for Music) — Memphis, Tenn.
- Rowan University (College of Performing Arts) — Glassboro, N.J.
- State University of New York, Oneonta — Oneonta, N.Y.
- Syracuse University (The Bandier Program for Recording and Entertainment Industries) — Syracuse, N.Y.
- Temple University (Klein College of Media and Communication) — Philadelphia, Pa.
- Tennessee State University (Commercial Music Program) — Nashville, Tenn.
- Toronto Metropolitan University — Toronto, Ontario
- University of California Los Angeles (The Herb Alpert School of Music) — Los Angeles, Calif.
- University of Colorado, Denver (College of Arts & Media) — Denver, Colo.
- University of Georgia (Terry College of Business) — Athens, Ga.
- University of Miami (Frost School of Music) — Miami, Fla.
- University of North Alabama — Florence, Ala.
- University of North Texas (College of Music) — Denton, Texas
- University of Rochester (Eastman School of Music) — Rochester, N.Y.
- University of Southern California (Thornton School of Music) — Los Angeles, Calif.
- William Paterson University — Wayne, N.J.

Read the full detailed list of Billboard’s Top Music Business Schools in the World Billboard’s Top Music Business Schools in the World **[here](https://www.billboard.com/pro/top-music-business-schools-2025-list/?ref=hypebot.com).**

*Bruce Houghton*