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The World’s Best Music Schools of 2023, Ranked

The World’s Best Music Schools of 2023, Ranked

From Bulgaria to Bloomington, Indiana, and of course L.A., these institutions are preparing the next generation of composers in film, TV, gaming and beyond.

Even music schools aren’t immune to the impact of Hollywood’s labor disputes. The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes have led to the delay of some apprenticeship programs at the USC Thornton School of Music over the summer. A major element of those strikes — artificial intelligence — has also been on the minds of students and faculty working in media scoring and other programs around the country. For Sean McMahon, chair of the screen scoring program at Berklee College of Music, AI isn’t “there” yet, and he sees it relegated potentially to generating library music in the near future. Jeanine Cowen, professor of practice and chair of the screen scoring program at USC Thornton, likewise sees AI as both a threat and tool for composers. “I think AI is a concern and we need to be actively involved in the conversation to mold this technology to be what we need it to be,” she says. “From my perspective, AI is going to be a tool set that helps us get the music that is in my brain into a system that I can then manipulate.”

To achieve THR’s school ranking this year, we polled the members of Hollywood’s Society of Composers and Lyricists, the Composers Diversity Collective, the Alliance of Women Film Composers, and music branch members from the Motion Picture Academy and Television Academy.

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