Hollywood Reporter Lists 25 Best Music Schools: Juilliard, Berklee and University of Southern California Top List [INTERACTIVE MAP]

Parents and high school seniors across the nation typically take to U.S. News for their university rankings but The Hollywood Reporter has come up with a solid list of its own, ranking the Top 25 music schools in the world for aspiring performers.

The first thing to know is that if you want to get the best in music education, you're probably coming to the United States. Of the 25 schools listed, only four were outside of the U.S. The top placing foreign academy was London's Royal College of Music, which placed no. 10. That city's Guildhall School of Music also placed, as did the Conservatoire de Paris and the Seoul Institute for the Arts.

A large number of the schools were located on the East coast, in New England in particular. The no. 1 overall was The Juilliard School in New York, which was praised for its affiliation with many accomplished alumni, as well as its frighteningly low acceptance rate of just 6.7 percent. The Berklee College of Music in Boston took no. 2 thanks to the more than 300 Grammys won by its alumni. The list heads out west for no. 3, the University of Southern California, which recently opened its new Iovine and Young Academy (regretfully not named the Iovine and Dre Academy).

Check out the full list below:

01) The Juilliard School

02) Berklee College of Music

03) University of Southern California

04) UCLA Herb Albert School of Music

05) Oberlin Conservatory

06) New England Conservatory

07) Curtis Institute of Music

08) Eastman School of Music

09) New York University

10) Royal College of Music

11) Manhattan School of Music

12) Yale School of Music

13) Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

14) California Institute of The Arts

15) University of Miami Frost School of Music

16) Conservatoire de Paris

17) University of North Texas

18) Guildhall School of Music & Drama

19) Cleveland Institute of Music

20) Syracuse University

21) Seoul Institute of The Arts

22) California State University Northridge

23) Middle Tennessee State University

24) Belmont University

25) Full Sail University

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