The Art Institute of Seattle

Date: Mar 17 2007
Major: Other (This Major's Salary over time)
This is not so much an "art" institute but a technical college. I found the the educational value to be somewhat like my bartendending school (your next employer will want to retrain you). The admissions person sold me on the program like a used car; he just kept spoon feeding me the answers that I wanted to hear. the price for the program was around 35k for a year and a half. Afterwords,they said that they would get me a job in the industry. After I spoke to someother graduates, I found that the only way to become a sound engineer was to start out setting up mics and cleaning up after the talent (at the end of a couple of years I might be able to wear a set of cans and nod when I was spoken to.) There are so few people making money in music that all your professor has is a tiny piece of dignity left and it turns him into a real self conscious asshole. It would have been a lot cheaper to just get an internship in the beginning and skip all the grades and pro-tools drilling