Have you considered utilizing the "Search" function in this tribe? Discussions about various schools has happened time and time again.

SAE - LA - I go there ...they have a lot of nice studio's and they provide you with a shit load of equipment to get started producing and engineering music ( mac laptop, midi controler, sound card, logic 7, pro tools 7.3 included as part of tuition)

there is also LARS ( los angeles recording school) but they dont give you a lop top or any gear and it's still the same cost as SAE


I heard bad things about LARS, however I'd say most of these types of schools are more for the theory and it's your job to apply the theories. I've been doing mostly self teaching. The benifit for me that the school has provided is the ability to know what I can do with the tools provided and then go and practice the shit out of it till I got it down.

I know SAE LA offers 2 programs... the audio technology program, which I am enrolled
and the EMP ( electronic music production course)

audio tech degree provides a diploma
EMP is only for personal gain ...no diploma issued

audio tech program is 17.5G's (loans available)
emp program is about 4G's


there is full sail in florida as well but thats a bit far from the west coast, however, I heard they have a great reputation

I chose SAE becasue there are 50 schools world wide and they offer a masters degree program in byron bay australlia.
the school is also internationally accredited.


DONT GO TO MI in hollywood ... they are so unprofessional and down right rude. They also took 1.5 months to send me a catalog and by then I was already 2 weeks in to the program at SAE. they started calling and emailing for about a week ( 7 weeks after initial contact) so I sent an email reply to a lady in the admin office saying thanks but you took too long and I already am attending another school, her reply was " dont make a mistake! it's not too late to join us" lol I wrote back telling her that since she took nearly 2 months to reply to my inquiry that I felt like I had already been saved from a big mistake and that she should have been on the ball months ago.

feel it out ... take some tours....research...ask questions and you will find what your looking for



peaz

There is a school that i am planing to go to called Ex'pression College (expression.edu) its about 10 min outside of Berkeley.
They have tours once a month. take a look at their website. Graduation in 2.6 years, 71 Gs at the end (not including housing and food). It is a Bachelors of applied science of sound arts.

Thats the only one i know of, though some community colleges offer programs as well.

SAE has a music production track and a full audio track - I'm doing the full audio tech program and I definatly recommend it. I know so much about mics right now they frighten me - I see and hear them everywhere!!!!! No really, why pay 60K for full sail or 58K for expressions and get a half assed BA while it takes you four years to get what you want out of it??? Just take 9 months (or 18 like me 'cuz I work too) and 17K and get what you want outta it, and save the four year degree for a college or university - gwyn