| Hi!
What college are you looking at?
I'm two years into my bachelor's course at McNally Smith College of Music in Minnesota, my major being bass guitar.
The question of weather or not to study the bass in a college setting is very dependent on what you're planning to get out of it. Right off the bat, I can tell you the things let many players down, and who usually drop out early on:
Do not expect to go to music school and slack off, play your favorite songs and call it "practice," and breeze through the program, because it's your hobby and passion. While I'm not saying this is your situation, it is for many new students at music school. Your studies will be challenging, and you're going to have to put a significant amount of time and effort into things that may not necessarily be fun at first, but will become so after time, and make you a better musician.
Second: KEEP AN OPEN MIND! Put yourself in the mindset that you're ready to be a sponge and soak up every bit of information you can, and become a well rounded, versatile bassist. From my perspective, the more you can do with your instrument, the better your chances of success are.
Last, but definitely not least, understand that you are not entering a typical college setting, and life path for that matter. Once again, I do not mean to insult your intelligence, as I'm sure you understand what being a professional bassist means, and the different avenues one might take to achieve that title. Just understand that there's no such thing as a "career placement" program with most music schools. You're not going to be handed a list of temp agencies with your diploma to get your start. We're training to be self employed, resourceful people, and make a living in an industry that doesn't have a straight forward, step by step plan of how to do so. If you want to do this, DO IT! Going to college for my passion has been the most rewarding thing I've done in my life thus far, and I look to forward to continuing with it. I would just suggest to make sure you have that burning desire to put your soul into it, because the degree we earn is not a ticket to a career; it's more an opportunity to spend four years networking, learning, growing, and becoming top notch musicians, so that we have the tools to go out and hopefully make a living with our craft.
Sorry this post was so long winded, but I'm very passionate about this, as I'm sure you are as well, and I wanted to give you as much info and insight to my experience with music school as I could! I say go for it! The other posters are correct in saying that bassists are most in demand than many other instruments- there are simply less of us!
So go do what you love, you won't regret it!
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