The School of Music and Theatre Professions at Loyola University New Orleans once again ranks as one of the top music business schools in the world, taking its place among some of the finest collegiate music programs for the third year running.
Billboard named Loyola to its annual list of Top Music Business schools for 2023 this week, announcing its selections in October. The school is one of several highly acclaimed music programs earning this honor, including the Berklee College of Music, New York University, UCLA, the Abbey Road Institute and the Liverpool Institute for the Performing Arts.
“This continued recognition is an incredible honor but really a testament to the work we've been doing for more than three decades in our acclaimed music industry program,” said Kate Duncan, director of the School of Music and Theatre Professions and the Conrad N. Hilton Chair in Music Industry at Loyola.
Students at Loyola live and work in one of America’s most exciting music cities. Opportunities for professional development abound, as students have the chance to play and produce music at the city’s countless festivals, drawing tens of thousands of attendees. And within the school’s music industry program, students attend conferences including NAMM, Americana and Mondo, and learn the business directly from professors who work in the industry.
The success of the Music Industry Studies program at Loyola led to the recent creation of two contemporary, commercial music performance degrees – Popular and Commercial Music, and Hip Hop and R&B, the latter of which is the only degree program of its kind in the world.
The school counts among its alumni Gerald “G-Eazy” Gillum ’11, who made Forbes and Fortune’s Top 100 lists, and Carter Lang ’04, who produced “Sunflower” for Post Malone – one of the most downloaded songs in the world. In addition, four recent graduates made Billboard’s 40-Under-40 list.
