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B.M. in Music Business

Become an asset to the music industry.

Grove City College offers a music business degree that will prepare you for a career in the music and entertainment industry — from artist management to audio production to community music making and more. As a music business major in this collaborative, cross-disciplinary program, you will benefit from excellent teaching and real-world experiences via music and business-related internships, as well as robust performance opportunities and a strong campus community that fosters creativity and innovation in the field. 

 

Program Highlights
  • Internship opportunities in a wide range of professional environments. 
    • Music business majors have recently interned with arts organizations including Glimmerglass Music Festival, Butler County Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Pops Orchestra, Johnstown Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Interlochen Arts Camp, Stanley Center for the Arts, and Nashville Conservancy for the Arts. 
  • On-campus performance opportunities in 11 faculty-directed ensembles and more than 15 chamber ensembles (ranging from our faculty-directed marching band, symphonic orchestra, and touring choir to chamber ensembles like string quartets, woodwind quintets, flute choir, trumpet ensemble, and chamber singers).
  • Collaboration opportunities with a team of faculty, staff, and students on creation and management of various departmental social media platforms. 
  • Leadership opportunities in state-level music organizations such as the Pennsylvania Collegiate Music Educators Association (PCMEA).
  • 62 major credit hours of rigorous undergraduate coursework in music and business. For detailed course descriptions, refer to the College Catalog.
    • Ensemble requirements include participation in at least one ensemble every semester, regardless of your primary instrument. 
    • Elective options allow flexibility to choose a senior capstone music recital or an internship in the field of music business. 
    • Business concentration requirements include options in business, management, and marketing.
  • Option to minor in musical theater. The College’s highly acclaimed Theatre Program puts on a faculty-directed fall musical and student-directed children’s theatre performance each year, as well as plays and one-act festivals that draw student participants from all majors.
  • Highly accomplished business faculty and widely talented music faculty mentors who hold membership in such organizations as ACDA, American Composers Forum, ASTA, BMI, CODA, College Music Society, NAfME, PADESTA, PMEA, Phi Beta Mu, SMTE, and TI:ME. 
  • Excellent facilities featuring: 
    • 22 Boston Steinway practice pianos and four-manual Kimball organ.
    • 28 practice rooms, organ studio, and harp studio.
    • 700-seat performance hall and theatre, 170-seat recital hall, and large ensemble rehearsal hall.
    • Music technology lab.
  • Vocation-enriching humanities core classes woven into your academic schedule that will help to solidify your worldview and cultivate critical thinking and communication skills, empathy, and a big-picture approach to your discipline.
Career Outcomes
  • If you are like 95% of Grove City College graduates, you will be prepared to compete for full-time employment or pursue graduate-level education at some of the best schools nationwide.
    • Many of our music business graduates pursue careers in arts management, events management, sales, communication, marketing, and mass media within the arts and music fields. 
    • Others pursue further education at such prestigious institutions as the University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music and Carl H. Lindner College of Business, Arizona State University School of Law, Belmont University, Carnegie Mellon University, Duquesne University School of Law, George Mason University, and Penn State University. 
  • Wherever your music career takes you, you will have the skillset, real-world experience, and grounded perspective to positively influence the music industry and glorify God with your gifts. 
Audition Information

An audition for admission into the music program is required for music majors and minors. For comprehensive audition information, please refer to Instructions for Music Applicants.

  • Musical selections of the standard academic repertoire for your instrument or voice are appropriate (standard, classical, musical theatre, contemporary, etc.), and two or three selections of contrasting style are preferred. 
  • Regardless of your instrument or voice, you will be tested in music theory, tonal memory, and rhythmic skills.
  • Your application for admission to Grove City College must be received by the Office of Admissions by your selected application deadline, and you must also complete your music audition by that deadline.