NYU Tisch School of the Arts Summer High School Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music
The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music is the first of its kind to provide professional business and artistic training toward a B.F.A degree for aspiring creative entrepreneurs in the music industry.
During the four-week program summer program for high school students, you become entrepreneurs-in-training by studying how music is recorded, produced, and distributed to consumers. To complement the technical training, you will also learn how music companies are conceptualized, created, and grown as well as how new technologies are changing the way we hear music.
Exposure to a wide range of current practices, as well as to those executives and artists changing the rules in the new digital era, are core components of this instruction. Master-class lectures by known innovators and visionaries on topics such as touring, artist management and digital media will be offered exclusively to participants of this program.
Ultimately, the summer high school program will have a strong focus on educating students on how to be responsible and informed makers, consumers, and distributors of popular music.
Note: The Tisch Summer High School Program is not a leisure camp. While the average program runs daily, Monday to Friday, 9am - 5pm, including academic classes, professional training, and/or studio and production time, students will often be just as busy in the evenings and weekends which also include curricular events and opportunities to work individually or collaborate with peers on assigned projects.
Location(s)
- New York University, New York, New York
Schedule
- July 6th - August 2nd, 2025
Cost/Compensation
- Tuition: $14,437, including room and board
- Tuition includes the 10 meal plan; students can upgrade to more meals for an additional fee
Eligibility Requirements
- Must be a current high school junior or sophomore (rising senior or junior) to apply. Preference is given to current high school juniors.
- You must have a 3.0 minimum cumulative grade point average (GPA) on a 4.0 unweighted scale and be in good academic standing.
- If accepted, you must live in NYU assigned housing. You will not be permitted to commute / live with family or friends on or off-campus during the program.
Deadline
- January
Application or Entry Requirements
- Online application form (remember to use your name exactly as it appears on your birth certificate/passport in your application)
- Personal statement
- Passport (non-U.S. citizens only)
- U.S. student visas are required for all non-U.S. citizens and/or residents.
- English language proficiency test results (non-native English-
- Two recommendation letters
- Unofficial high school transcripts (please upload to your application)
- $75 non-refundable application fee
Notifications of Decisions
Financial Aid Details
- Need-based application fee waivers are available. Applicants can request a fee waiver by sending an email with an explanation of financial hardship to tisch.special.admissions@nyu.edu
- Tisch has a limited number of scholarships for high school students to attend the Tisch summer online workshops.
- Scholarships are given to students who demonstrate the most financial need.
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New York University (NYU) is a private research university located in Greenwich Village in New York City. Founded in 1831, it has since grown to become the largest private university in the United States, with over 50,000 students enrolled across its nineteen schools and colleges.
Tisch School of the Arts was founded at NYU in 1965, and over the last 50 years has become the country’s preeminent center for the study of the performing, cinematic and emerging media arts. Artists and scholars come from around the world to study acting, dance, cinema studies, collaborative arts, design for stage and film, dramatic writing, film and television, game design, interactive media arts, interactive telecommunications, moving image archiving and preservation, musical theatre writing, performance studies, photography, public policy, and recorded music. Icons like Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lady Gaga, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Bell, Joel Coen, and Adam Sandler attended Tisch, and alumni and faculty continue to be leading creative forces.
