My son will probably major in Engineering, but wants to continue studying music composition as a music minor. He does NOT want to study/perform on his clarinet. Most college search engines don't search on minors and even so, most music minors are performance based. Since my son and I had to do a lot of research to find these specific music minors, I wanted to share what we found for a school with a decent Engineering program and a non-performance (sometimes called Academic minor) music minor. Our search was focused on finding Music Composition minors, but we settled for some general non-performance music minors. We found that many colleges will not let you take music history or composition courses unless you are in a music major or minor. Also some colleges only have Music Composition or Theory minors that are only for Music Majors (uggh). This is not comprehensive, but here is what we found.
Miami University of Ohio - Music Composition minor (audition required:you submit compositions).
University of Arizona - non-performance based music minor, not specifically just composition though.
Arizona State Univ- Non-performance Music Minor
Case Western Reserve University -non-performance minor (no audition).
University of Colorado- Colorado Springs (not so great Engineering, but it's there) has unique music minors including Music Comp. & Sound design (no audition).
Univ. of St Thomas (Minnesota) - Music composition minor (Private catholic).
Texas Tech Univ. - non-performance music minor.
Southern Methodist U. (Texas)- flexible music minor: can take composition instead of instrument classes.
University of Tennessee - music composition minor.
Tulane University says composition classes are open to any student.
Univ. of Miami (FL) has music comp. minor.
Drexel Univ (PA) has music comp minor.
Ohio State - a pretty flexible music minor (no performance needed) We missed Ohio's application deadline.
Oregon State Univ- academic music minor.
Univ. of Illinois Chicago- academic music minor.
California Polytechnic (Cal Poly)- music minor seemed flexible (I think you may have to be in an ensemble 2 units?)
FYI- We are in Colorado. Surprisingly, CU Boulder has no music minor. CSU has a performance based music minor.
We started this search a little late and, if application deadlines had passed, then I didn't look further.
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