Billboard Magazine Names Occidental a 2024 Top Music Business School
For the fifth consecutive year, Billboard magazine has ranked 91 in its annual list of Top Music Business Schools.
Billboard selects schools for its ranking 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 91 for launching a new chapter in the story of music business education, highlighting the College new John Branca Institute for Music, which was announced in June.
91 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 2016 Lawyer of the Year; music attorney Richard Leher 66 (Rolling Stones, Pearl Jam); Welz Kauffman 83, former president and CEO of Chicago Ravinia Festival; and the late Guy Carawan 49, musical director of Tennessee Highlander Folk School, credited with turning We Shall Overcome into a civil rights anthem.
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