430 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60605, USA

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Undergraduate programs

Bachelor of Arts. Four years. In music and computing. Bachelor of Music. Four years. Concentrations in performance (classical, jazz), composition, music education. Studies include music history, theory, aural skills, choral and instrumental conducting, pedagogy. Bachelor of Musical Arts. Four years. An interdisciplinary program of music together with a second area of study. Bachelor of Fine Arts. Four years. In musical theatre or musical theatre/dance.

Graduate program

Master of Arts. In performing arts administration. Master of Music. In performance, composition, orchestral studies, Suzuki pedagogy.

Other programs

Diploma in Orchestral Studies. A graduate qualification. Professional Diploma in Opera - awarded in collaboration with Chicago Opera Theatre.

Roosevelt University was founded in 1945 as an independent, non-sectarian institution. An earlier institution, the Chicago Musical College had been founded in 1867 and in 1954 it merged with Roosevelt University’s School of Music (itself founded in 1945) and since 2000 has been known as the Chicago College of Performing Arts. It comprises a Music Conservatory and a Theatre Conservatory. The professional training program in Orchestral Studies features many of the principals of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the voice faculty includes a number of former professionals from the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Facilities include a number of fine performing spaces, well-equipped technology laboratories and electro-acoustic music facilities. The library has an extensive music archive of documents, publications, student theses and recordings of the Music Conservatory, some dating from the nineteenth century. Operas are produced each year. Member of the National Association of Schools of Music.

October 2022