Hiho, On Saturday 04 April 2009 09:02:55 Arda Eden wrote: I think the type of education and program mostly depends on what the purpose of the program is. There are programs called Music Technology, that in fact educate sound engineers, for either live sound engineering or studio sound engineering. These programs have a clear course to get the students to learn the skills to make good recordings, or good amplification. So this is more what the Germans would call a "Tonmeister"-program. In some cases such programs are attached to music schools or conservatories. Then you have departments (sometimes also called Music Technology) in Universities that are more meant to train people in the academic sense, so there is more an emphasis on theory, research and experimentation. Students coming out of such programs are not necessarily able to make a proper recording, like the Tonmeisters (who usually also get hearing training and such), but they know about different theories and maybe know a bit more about the nitty, gritty details of DSP, while they may not know which plugin effect to make the recording sound better like the student who did the Tonmeister program. And then you have programs where both approaches get mixed together... But I hope this helps you to get a general idea of the different types of education. sincerely, Marije