INSPIRED MENTORSHIP
Berklee professors include artists and big names in the music industry. All are highly accomplished, passionately committed, and truly inspirational. And thanks to our 1:11 faculty-to-student ratio, they'll be your mentors.
BREAK THROUGH AT BERKLEE
Innovation is in our DNA. We're always striving to push music education further, make it better, and drive it in new directions. Since 1945, we have remained committed to not only reflecting the music of today, but shaping the music of tomorrow.
Boston is home to our main campus. This exciting, welcoming, cosmopolitan city is filled with vitality, culture, and history. During your time at Berklee, you'll have more to see, do, and experience than you could ever fit into four years.
unique spaces + places
Berklee’s Valencia campus offers all of the college’s trademarks—the accomplished faculty, the state-of-the-art studios and equipment, and the dynamic, diverse student body—in the iconic City of Arts and Sciences.
This complex in an old ConEd power plant in Manhattan is the only New York studio large enough to accommodate a full orchestra.
Visit locales like Nashville (Music City, USA), Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, and Atlanta, which are all filled with working Berklee alumni.
Whatever your passion, whatever your path, we have a major to align you with the experts who will help you move forward.
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Gain inspiration and world-class instruction toward working in composition, conducting, or related fields by studying a variety of composition techniques, instrumentation, and orchestration.
Develop your writing, arranging, and producing skills in a diverse community of professional musicians, and gain the necessary skills to work in a studio environment.
Excel in a world where experimentation, artistry, and technology meet. Learn how to use technology to create and produce compositions, sonic design, and instruments.
Learn to compose, arrange, and conduct music for film, television and video games.
Add your mark to the rich history of jazz by creating compositions and musical scores for a variety of ensembles and musical settings.
Learn the fundamentals of the music business from a musician's perspective. Dive into the legal, financial, and artistic nuances of the contemporary music business industry.
Realize your dream of teaching and mentoring the next generation of musicians. Learn how to meet the needs of diverse learners by using cutting-edge pedagogical practices.
Develop your expertise in engineering, production, editing, mixing, and mastering. Learn to use the latest tools and techniques and gain the experience you need to adapt to the changing demands of the recording industry.
Use music’s power to connect people, heal trauma, and improve quality of life. Gain real-world experience through internships and clinical research.
Learn the skills, concepts, and methodology on your principal instrument that will prepare you for a high level of professional performance.
Innovate and design your own musical path through Berklee’s expansive curriculum. Work with advisors to create an educational plan tailored to what you want to achieve in the music industry.
Master melody, harmony, arranging, and music writing, and build a competitive portfolio of original songs. Learn to write artfully and gain the skills for creating commercially viable material.
Everywhere you turn, there's music. Thousands of events are staged at Berklee College of Music every year. All over campus, every day and night, you'll have an abundance of opportunities to experience and perform music.
Record, edit, and mix in world-class facilities. At our custom-built facility at 160 Massachusetts Avenue, you'll find a 10-studio music production complex that's among the largest of its kind in the U.S. And as a student, it's all yours.
Take advantage of Berklee Online. You can also pursue your education from wherever you are. Berklee Online provides individual 12-week courses, multicourse certificate programs, and fully accredited bachelor's and master's degrees.
Berklee professors include artists and big names in the music industry. All are highly accomplished, passionately committed, and truly inspirational. And thanks to our 1:11 faculty-to-student ratio, they'll be your mentors.
Mindi Abair B.M. '91 Cristina Abaroa '91 Tariqh Akoni '91 Cheche Alara B.M. '94 Candace Avery '81 Joe Belliotti B.M. '95 Jeff Bhasker '99 Will Calhoun '86 Mike Cassidy '97 Louis Cato '04 Gustavo Celis B.M. '94 Jasmine Cephas Jones '09 Paula Cole '90 Tim Cushman '80 Ramin Djawadi B.M. '98 David Dorn '86 Fab Dupont '94 Rachelle Ferrell '80 Melissa Ferrick '90 Lynne Fiddmont '84 Luis Figueroa-Roig '11 Eugene Gearty '82 Kirill Gerstein '96 Ray Greene B.M. '97 Pedro Guzman '04 Roy Hargrove '89 Donald Harrison '81 Amy Heidemann B.M. '08 Taku Hirano B.M. '95 Kazuma Jinnouchi '02 Sanjeev Kale B.M. '89 Grace Kelly B.M. '12 Alex Lacamoire B.M. '10 Will Lee B.M. '16 Wang Leehom '99 Anthony Maserati '85 John Mayer '96 James Moraels B.M. '16 Tina Morris '97 Nate Morton B.M. '94 Rob Mounsey '75 Jessica Anne Newham B.M. '13 Nick Noonan B.M. '08 Stephen Oremus B.M. '92 Dave Pettigrew B.M. '91 Emily Remler B.M. '76 Makeba Riddick '99 John Roberts B.M. '92 John Roberts '86 Reuben Rogers B.M. '99 Rashawn Ross '99 Seth Saltzman '81 Marlon Saunders B.M. '87 Nir Seroussi B.M. '96 Ruslan Sirota B.M. '03 Joel Someillan B.M. '93 Esperanza Spalding B.M. '05 Meghan Stabile '06 Tierney Sutton '87 Susan Tedeschi B.M. '91 Nobuko Toda '09 Tommy Torres B.M. '93 Hiromi Uehara '03 Robert Vega B.M '06 Lucas Vidal B.M. '07 Miles Walker B.M. '03 Steve Walter '78 Jeff "Tain" Watts '81 Will Wells '11 Peiter Zatko B.M. '92 Tuffus Zimbabwe B.M. '05Sign up to download our viewbook, plus information about financial aid, auditions, career services, and more.
