are certain areas of accounting that have specilized features such as oil and gas accounting, I agree with musica that the solid basis in accounting is of foremost importance. Rather than look to music programs, look to schools with well known accounting programs such as University of Illinois (there are many others). These schools will offer specialized accounting courses as well. You will likely end up in public accounting with a firm, get your CPA, and then you are most useful to a public corporation such as Sony. If you go with a firm, try to pick a firm that has music industry clients, work with those clients, and you will be set for the openings that occur. With marketing, you will likely need to go the MBA route. Stradmom, while I don't disagree with your observations about trends in specialization, I would argue that the typical music industry course does not delve sufficiently deeply into a discipline such as accounting or even high level marketing to provide adequate credentials to hire in at Sony. If the OP wants direction as to where to go to school, try and find out where the grads of accounting programs get their internships. If you want to work here in LA, check out the MBA programs at USC Marshall and UCLA Anderson.