Overview

Earn an associate degree or Minor in Contemporary Music Business.

This degree is rooted in entrepreneurship and provides graduates with a competitive edge when entering the music industry

Admissions

Degree Sheet Course Descriptions

Contemporary Music Business

Our Contemporary Music Business curriculum helps students develop a formal understanding of how the music industry works and the necessary skills to navigate it. Contemporary Music Business majors will take specialized courses in artist management and development, music publishing, record label operations, and concert and tour promotion. In addition to this traditional coursework, students will interact daily with our faculty who are all currently working in the music industry and will have opportunities to network with successful producers, performers and music business professionals through our Masterclass series. This program is entrepreneurial in nature and will prepare graduates to enter the workforce as well as launch their own businesses.

Associate Degree Programs

Students can earn an associate degree or minor in our three core music areas. Students have the opportunity to continue their education at the University of Central Oklahoma with a bachelor's degree.

Music Business

Learn about how the music industry works and build the necessary skills needed to navigate it in this entrepreneurial program.

Contemporary Music Business

Music Performance

Learn musicianship skills, theoretical concepts, and stylistic methods that embody current professional performance standards.

Contemporary Music Performance

Music Production

Learn all aspects of the music production process through hands-on experience in the academy’s state-of-the-art recording studios.

Contemporary Music Production

BAT Degree Programs

Our Bachelor of Applied Technology degree programs are accredited by Higher Learning Commission (HLC). ACM@UCO also offers minors in each area: Contemporary Music Performance, Contemporary Music Production, Contemporary Music Business, Songwriting, and Post-Production Audio.

Commercial Music

Study music business and entrepreneurship, advanced topics in contract law, copyright and other legal issues in the music industry.

Commercial Music

Audio Production

Students majoring in Audio Production will focus their studies on contemporary audio and music production.

Audio Production