Artists can go to Expressions to record also, for free...because their engineers need practice. But, I think there's a waiting list.
If you're around the South Bay Area, a nice school to go to that has a full music industry program is Foothill College in Los Altos. It's a junior college, so it's junior college prices...but they have EVERYTHING from music business and law, to pre and post production inside studios. Anything having to do with the business, they teach.