The Bandier Program for Music and the Entertainment Industries

The Bandier Program for Music and the Entertainment Industries is a multidisciplinary program that includes an understanding of music, communications, business, and entrepreneurship with a strong liberal arts background. Made possible by a generous gift from SU Trustee and Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC Chairman and CEO Martin Bandier ’62, the program prepares you for the music and entertainment industries via a rigorous 128-credit curriculum, weekly contact with prestigious industry professionals, hands-on learning opportunities, and study abroad in London, England. You also have access to the program’s EMI Center for Internship, Mentoring and Career Development.

The program focuses on music as it functions in all media, particularly new media. This exciting field is wide open. Opportunities abound for young women and men of all backgrounds to shape the future of the music business.

In addition to your coursework in the College of Visual and Performing Arts, your home college, you take classes in SU’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, the Martin J. Whitman School of Management, and the College of Arts and Sciences. You may also earn credit for such activities as serving on SU’s Concert Board, participating in the campus radio station, or working as a campus representative for a record label. You are encouraged to spend the fall semester of your senior year in London, the major global center for the music industry outside of the U.S. There you will take classes in such areas as global commerce and law and have an internship.

The Bandier Program leads to a bachelor of science degree (B.S.) in Recording and Allied Entertainment Industries. Students are not required to audition and take 18 to 21 credit hours in music history and theory.

Students in the Setnor School of Music's excellent bachelor of music degree program in music industry audition on an instrument and follow a rigorous musical education program that constitutes more than half of their credit requirements. We advise prospective students to consider your artistic aspirations as you explore which of these outstanding programs is right for you.