[DavidDaMonkey]

While we are at it, I guess I will speak up for my Alma Mater as well: Belmont University in Nashville, TN. It is geared towards the music side of things rather than the theater, but has some classes that are broad enough to serve in both regards. They have an Audio Engineering Technology degree in which you can do a BA or a BS path. The BS sounds right for you.

There are two stellar studio maintenance classes which really get you taking apart boards and testing circuit paths and building pre-amps from scratch. Its pretty neat.

There are also two live sound reinforcement classes that give you plenty of hands on experience. By the end of the advanced course, you have the opportunity to mix FOH or monitors for a very large scale multi-act concert on a Venue or a PM5D or the like.

The school also has a fairly small but dedicated theater program. The best thing about the size of it is that you could easily get in at the beginning as their sound guy and make a niche for yourself all 4 years. I did more of the acting side while I was there, but I had a friend who decided he wanted to learn lighting his Freshman year, attached himself to the theater program, and within a year and a half was their ME and head LD. They were just constructing a pretty nice off campus theater as I was graduating, so it should be pretty new and offer plenty of modern opportunities.

I was in the first graduating class of the AET major, and it was pretty awesome then, so I can only imagine what it's like now.