Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music college in Boston, Massachusetts with many prominent faculty, staff, alumni, and visiting artists. It has an enrollment of approximately 3,800 students and a faculty of approximately 430 (2004 figures). Degree program tuition is approximately $20,350 for the fall through spring academic year (2004-2005 figures).

Berklee was founded by Lawrence Berk and was originally named Schillinger House of Music, after his teacher Joseph Schillinger. Berk changed the name to Berklee School of Music in 1954 and, after the school received its accreditation, the name was changed to Berklee College of Music in 1973.

Table of contents

1 Facilities 2 Majors 3 Prominent alumni 4 External links

Facilities

• 13 buildings in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood
• a practice & rehearsal building in Boston's Allston-Brighton neighborhood

Majors

• Performance
• Composition
• Jazz Composition
• Music Production & Engineering
• Film Scoring
• Music Business/Management
• Music Synthesis
• Contemporary Writing & Production
• Music Education
• Songwriting
• Music Therapy
• Professional Music

Prominent alumni

• Steve Vai
• Dream Theater
• Quincy Jones
• Will Calhoun
• Melissa Etheridge
• Bruce Cockburn
• Donald Fagen
• Kevin Eubanks

External links

• Berklee College of Music's official website