Popular Music Programs - United States
Here you'll find an ever-growing list of college and university level Popular Music (PM) across the world. The programs listed focus on aspects of popular songwriting/composition, performance, popular music studies, and popular musicology. While some programs listed also include aspects of recording technology, music business, and/or entrepreneurship this is in conjunction with a songwriting and/or performance focus. In the near future I hope to add secondary PM programs as well. If your program is not listed below, please contact me at steveholleymusic@gmail.com Thanks!
Alabama
- BA in Commercial Music
Arizona
- BA in Popular Music
California
- BM in Commercial Music
California Institute for the Arts
- BM in Musical Arts/Experimental Pop
Point Loma Nazarene University
- BA in Commercial Music with a concentration in Composition or Performance
University of Southern California
- BM in Popular Music
- Minor in Songwriting
- Minor in Popular Music
- MM in Popular Music Teaching and Learning
Colorado
- AAS in Music and Entertainment Entrepreneurship with a concentration in Music Performance
- AAS in Music and Entertainment Entrepreneurship with a concentration in Music Production
- BS in Singer/Songwriter
- BS in Performance
Florida
- BM in Commercial Music
- Minor in Commercial Music
Palm Beach Atlantic University
- BM in Popular Music
- Minor in Popular Music
- BM in Musicianship, Artistry Development, and Entrepreneurship
- Minor in Creative American Music
Illinois
- BA in Contemporary, Urban, and Popular Music
- BM in Contemporary, Urban, and Popular Music
- Minor in Hip-Hop Studies
- BA in Commercial Music with Performance or Songwriting emphasis
- BM in Commercial Music
Louisiana
- BS in Popular and Commercial Music
- BS in Urban and Electronic Music Production
Maine
University of Maine at Augusta
- BM in Contemporary and Popular Music
Maryland
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
- BA in Jazz and Popular Music
Massachusetts
- BM in Performance
- BM in Professional Music
- BM in Songwriting
- Minor in American Roots Music
- Minor in Electronic Performance
- Minor in Performance Studies in Latin Music
Minnesota
Minnesota State University-Moorhead
- BS in Commercial Music
- Minor in Commercial Music
Missouri
- BM in Songwriting
New Jersey
- AFA in Music with a concentration in Popular Music
- BA in Popular Music Studies
- BA in Music with Popular Music Emphasis
New York
- BA in Music with a concentration on Popular Music Studies
Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music at New York University
- BFA in Recorded Music
Longy School of Music of Bard College
- AD in Jazz and Contemporary Music
- MM in Jazz and Contemporary Music
New York University Steinhardt School of Music
- BM in Music Theory and Composition: Concentration in Contemporary Production and Songwriting
- MM in Music Theory and Composition: Concentration in Songwriting
- BA in Contemporary Music
- Minor in Contemporary Music
State University of New York-Oneonta
- BA in Music Industry
North Carolina
- BA in Popular Music
- BM in Commercial and Electronic Music
Ohio
- BA in Popular Music
- BA in Music with a concentration in Contemporary Popular Music
- BA in Professional Music
- BA in Commercial Music with a concentration in Performance and Entrepreneurship
- BA in Commercial Music with a concentration in Production and Engineering
- BA in Commercial Music with a concentration in Management and Marketing
University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
- BM in Commercial Music Production
Oklahoma
University of Central Oklahoma
- AA in Contemporary Music Performance
- Minor in Contemporary Music Performance
Oregon
- BA in Music with a Popular Music concentration
- BM in Music with a Popular Music concentration
Pennsylvania
- BA in Commercial Music
South Carolina
University of South Carolina Upstate
- BA in Commercial Music
- Minor in Commercial Music
Tennessee
Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business at Belmont University
- BA in Songwriting
Belmont University School of Music
- BM in Commercial Music with an emphasis in Composition and Arranging
- MM in Commercial Music with an emphasis in Performance or Arranging
Middle Tennessee State University
- BS in Recording Industry with a concentration in Commercial Songwriting
- BS in Commercial Music
- BM in Commercial Music
Texas
- AAS Commercial Music with an emphasis in Digitial Music Production or Performing Musician
- BM in Commercial Music
Utah
- BM in Commercial Music
- BM with emphasis in Commercial Music
- BM in Commercial Music
Virginia
- BM in Commercial Music with Songwriting emphasis
- BA in Contemporary Musicianship and Entrepreneur Development
- MM in CCM Vocal Pedagogy
Wyoming
Western Wyoming Community College
- AA in Popular Music, voice