Die Hochschule der Künste Bern HKB, Switzerland

The Hochschule der Künste HDK Bern includes a multi media department, a Conservatory, a music informatic department, a recording engineering faculty etc., possibly the most complete music university in the world today. Also in the house biomedical engineering, automobil technic, architecture, music theater, church music, opera, a 25 million USD recording studio, three concert hall, the largest with 3500 seats etc., all under one roof.

Die Hochschule der Künste (HKB) Bern

Maynooth, Ireland. Where we're halfway through a module in orchestration that does not include actually [i]hearing[/i] and music. We spent 4 weeks on transposition.

Honestly, is this normal? It's one of the most respected undergraduate programs in the country. 

4 Weeks? Hmmm...seems like 5 minutes would be more than adequate.

Then again, I have no experience with music school, and I don't know what the acceptable skill level is. I've always wanted to go to school for music, but it terrifies me to think that the class would likely progress as quickly as the slowest student.

@B.C.Johnson said:

4 Weeks? Hmmm...seems like 5 minutes would be more than adequate.

Back in my days, we did chromatic transposition and sight transposition of saxophones, clarinets, valve horns etc., in three minutes; clef transposition of F-clefs and C-clefs and the sight reading of these from orchestra scores included. 

Then, quasi on minute four, we composed Symphony No 1