The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music will launch Jacobs in LA, a dynamic new initiative of its Music Scoring for Visual Media program, in spring 2024.

Jacobs in LA will enable eligible Jacobs School of Music students to reside in Los Angeles, where they will finalize their capstone project course requirements, participate in an internship and network within the profession.

The Jacobs School anticipates that within two years, audio engineering students will also be able to take advantage of this opportunity as well as other students in new degree programs, further increasing the number of students the school will host in Los Angeles by 2030. The school is in the process of considering new programs in music business and music production, and faculty committees are working to define those programs.

“We are thrilled to launch Jacobs in LA in these early years of our second century as the preeminent school for the study of music,” said Abra Bush, David Henry Jacobs Bicentennial Dean. “Across the globe, our students engage in and define new careers in traditional classical music as well as commercial music, music business, film scoring, music production, audio engineering and more.

“The new LA residency program is a way to realize and fully engage an established network of industry professionals, many of whom are Jacobs alumni, and a way to catapult our students into the highest level of the profession.”