To achieve the rankings this year, we reached out to insiders in the film and television music community and polled members of Hollywood’s Society of Composers and Lyricists, the Composers Diversity Collective, the Alliance of Women Film Composers and the music branches of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Television Academy.


1. Columbia College, Chicago

2. Berklee College of Music, Boston


3. USC Los Angeles Thornton School of Music

4. The Juilliard School, New York

5. UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Los Angeles

6. The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco

7. Eastman School of Music, Rochester, New York

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8. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music,  Oberlin, Ohio

9. New England Conservatory of Music, Boston

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10. Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington, Indiana

11. Film Scoring Academy of Europe, Sofia, Bulgaria

12. New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development

13. Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program — Seattle Film Institute, Seattle

15. Yale School of Music, New Haven, Connecticut

16. Columbia University in the City of New York

17. Musicians Institute, Los Angeles

18. Royal College of Music, London

19. University of Miami Frost School of Music, Coral Gables, Florida

20. University of North Texas, Denton, Texas