For the Average Student, a Poor Return on Investment
First and foremost, Berklee is a high-volume school which graduates over 1,000 students each year. The problem with this is the music industry cannot absorb that many professionals. As a consequence, the majority of graduates will never earn a living as a music industry professional. Berklee's own data state this. So the question becomes: Do you want to "invest" several hundred thousand dollars for a degree that may never see a return on investment? In our experience, this business model is deeply flawed. Moreover, with Berklee's recently-announced alliance with Suno AI into the curriculum, implicitly admits they see the future as one where prompting a chat bot to produce music instead of developing and honing such skills organically over the span of years is a viable way forward. Which begs another question: if AI is the future of music, why attend a music school in the first place?
By h5mind