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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Business - Management and Administration  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright All Berklee College of Music cares about is money. Given the opportunity I would have taken a few years of more intensive private instruction (for drumset, music theory, ear training, etc) and pursued a business degree at a real university. Avoid this college at all costs. Surrounding City: A+, Education Quality: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Oct 08 2009 4th Year Male -- Class 2009    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=61327&uid=562'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Music - Performance  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Bright You Don't Need Berklee College of Music. I graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2006. After taking out student loans because I thought that I would be able to pay them back with a job that I would be able to get with my Professional Music Degree at Berklee. After two years of trying to find a job anywhere I figured something out. Not only was a Music Job few and far between; and I live near N.Y.C. But unless you were one of the lucky ones that found a Music Job other than Private Lessons. Your degree from Berklee is useless in the real world. Nobody needs you to sing or play an instrument for 8 hours a day. So that leaves you with finding a real job. When you get out of Berklee all your most or all your skills are in Music. In the real world you need real skills such as clerical, book keeping, finance, etc., to get a job and pay the rent. After Berklee if you don't have someone very close to you like a Mother/Father in the Music Business already it is near impossible to get a Music Job no matter how talented you are. And moving to New York City or L.A. is not going to help much if you don't have someone to bring you into the Music World. My Opinion is if your thinking about going to Berklee College of Music DON'T! You can become a successful musician just by practicing and performing and promoting. Berklee is a waste of money and the skills you achieve at Berklee will not help you in the real world unless you have a close contact that will help you out in music; which in any case you don't need Berklee anyways. It doesn't matter if you went to college for Music. People in the real world won't care. A Berklee Degree is just as good as a High School Education. After Berklee you will be struggling to find any job to pay back your student loans and because you might only have music skills you might even struggle to get a job working at a restaurant. For one or two people that were successful when they came out of Berklee they're are many people that have come out of Berklee that are not. My advice is to try to go to a four year college and Major in a "Real World" degree like Finance, or Therapy or something that people will always need. Because they're are two many musicians that are out of work that need a job. When you get out of Berklee and you can't find work; trust me you might be working a job for 8 dollars an hour flipping hamburgers. And is that why you go to college and spend all that money? To work for 8 dollars an hour? College is supposed to get you jobs based upon your training and experience with higher paying salary and benefits. That's the point of college; when you get out you are supposed to find a job with a competitive salary and benefits. You go to Berklee; after you get out you might not be able to find that. You might be a super talented Musician but if you don't have anybody to get you that magic job you will not be able to work as a musician. I have a lot more to say but I won't. Don't Go To Berklee College Of Music. The biggest waste of money and time I and many other people have spent. Starting Job: Store Associate, Preparedness: F, Reputation: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Feb 26 2009 Alumna Female -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=58055&uid=562'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Other  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright I never actually attended this school. I went to another school down the street for two years... and somehow, all (seriously, all) of my friends ended up being berklee students. This is what I have to say: out of my closest 15 friends who went there: 4 - dropped out (one after a year). 2- have a "song writing" dream but no real talent. 3- are in majors like composition and music therapy and have potential. and 6 have graduated (only 2 of these are actually in a band that's gaining importance). anyway, there's some food for thought. Most of the people I know who go/went there had a fun time but think it was pretty much a waste of money. I personally think you should go to school for something you can make money doing while you simultaneously persue a musical career. Because in the end the main thing that got my two friends ahead was the connections of one of their band members and his daddy's money. The other ones with talent are now stuck working at coffee shops and book stores for $8/hr. then again, who knows how things will go? oh well, that's life huh? Whatever you choose: Good Luck! Preparedness: F, Reputation: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Dec 24 2008 Alumna Female -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='http://www.studentsreview.com/active/shared/sr_comment.js?sckey=56445&uid=562'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Engineering Department  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright You get out of Bezerklee Pool of Mucus what you put into it. There is a 50% drop out the first year because frankly most of the people there are NOT musicians, they are posers. Berklee has a very tough 1st year which weeds out the wanna-be's. DO NOT depend on this school making you a great musician. In fact, count on them ruining your style with too much thinking. That being said, it is AWESOME for learning theory. Then walk away from the theory and let the soil of time cover the seeds, then the seeds sprout and you simply KNOW how to play, no thinking needed. And DO NOT expect the degree to get you a job and place but Japan. ESPECIALLY in Boston. Internships, networking, gigging out, connections are the key. I was a so-so student at Berklee, but I understood the value of internships. And so I had a job even before graduation. The hot shot student engineer??? He was unemployed and had to go back to Germany. My path at Berklee led me to where I am now. I didn't expect it, but I would not change it. Good luck! Starting Job: Audio Engineer, Preparedness: B, Reputation: D+ Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private) Jul 01 2008 Alumnus Male -- Class 2000   Forward  Blog it! 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