List of musicians by academic degree
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page lists famous or otherwise notable professional musicians by the highest academic degree they obtained. Since academic degrees are common among contemporary classical music composers, this list is restricted to popular music artists.
[edit] Doctoral degree
- Mira Aroyo (Ladytron)
- Milo Aukerman (The Descendents)
- John Butcher
- David L Cook musician, (The Cook Family Singers)
- Santiago Durango (Big Black)
- Joe Escalante (The Vandals)
- J.D. specializing in Anti-trust litigation, Loyola Marymount University
- Amelia Fletcher (Talulah Gosh)
- Michael Gerald (Killdozer)
- Claudia Gonson (The Magnetic Fields)
- Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)
- David Grubbs (Squirrel Bait)
- John S. Hall (King Missile)
- Brian May (Queen)
- Honorary Doctorate of Science in astronomy, Hertfordshire University
- Sterling Morrison (The Velvet Underground)
- Steve Pedersen (Criteria)
- Richard Pinhas
- Ph.D. in philosophy, Sorbonne
- Alex Reed (ThouShaltNot)
- Dan Snaith (Caribou)
- Gregg Turner (The Angry Samoans)
- Ph.D. in mathematics
- Graham Wiggins (Dr. Didg)
- Warren Zanes
- Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester
[edit] Master's degree
- Phil Alvin (The Blasters)
- M.Sc. in mathematics and artificial intelligence, UCLA
- Rubén Blades
- M.A. in international law, Harvard Law School
- Law degree from University of Panama
- James Cassidy (Information Society)
- Art Garfunkel (Simon and Garfunkel)
- Dexter Holland (The Offspring)
- Kris Kristofferson
- Tom Lehrer
- Tom Scholz (Boston)
- Master's in mechanical engineering, MIT
- Don Falcone
- Master's degree in creative writing, SF State
- Edi Bon (Mistakemistake)
- Ivan Bon (Mistakemistake)
- Master's degree in art and sculpture, University of Belgrade
- Kris Myers (Umphrey's McGee)
- M.A. in Jazz Studies, DePaul
- Jonathan Meiburg (Okkervil River), (Shearwater)
- M.A. in Geography, University of Texas at Austin