For the sixth consecutive year, Billboard magazine has included SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ in its annual list of Top Music Business Schools.
Billboard selects schools through executive recommendations, alumni information provided by honorees from multiple power lists, information requested from each school, and a decade of reporting on these programs. The magazine the College’s John Branca Institute for Music, announced in June 2024, which bridges academics with real-world industry engagement through programs such as the Mike Curb Endowed Program in Popular Music History.
SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ alumni include such prominent music industry figures as former Warner Music Group CEO Steve Cooper ’68; Charlie Cohen ’78, president of TV, film, and live theater at Warner Music Group; manager Ian Montone ’89 (Jack White, LCD Soundsystem); music attorney John Branca ’72, Billboard’s 2016 Lawyer of the Year; music attorney Richard Leher ’66 (Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam); Welz Kauffman ’83, former president and CEO of Chicago’s Ravinia Festival; and Assistant Professor of Music Ramona Gonzalez ’09, the L.A.-based musician and scholar who records and performs as Nite Jewel.
