Complex sentence: He began attending Keele University in Staffordshire, England, but transferred to Reed College of Portland, Oregon in 1973 in a junior-year exchange program; he earned his BA in music at Reed in 1975.
Split into simpler sentences: He began attending Keele University in Staffordshire, England, but transferred to Reed College of Portland, Oregon in 1973 in a junior-year exchange program. He earned his BA in music at Reed in 1975.