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Founded in 1950, the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM) is located at the former Prince Chun's Residence of Qing Dynasty and merged together with the National Conservatory of Music, the Peking National School of Fine Arts and other 6 departments of music in Universities from 1920s to 1940s in China. The university is among the list of the universities of "211 project", the only institution in Academies of Fine Arts in China, and only key institution of higher learning supervised directly under the Ministry of Education of the State Council among all academies of arts in China.
 
As an institution of single discipline for training high level musical specialists in higher learning, the Central Conservatory of Music has evolved a complete system of pedagogy embracing courses of all levels starting from elementary classes up to postgraduate programs for master and doctoral degrees. The Conservatory has departments of composition, conducting, musicology, music education, voice and opera, piano, orchestral instruments, and traditional Chinese instruments, academic study, offering undergraduate programs of study for a period of 4 to 5 years and postgraduate program for 2 or 3 years.
 
Having served for the past 55 years both as a music education center for training professional musicians and a research-composition-performance center for developing music education of society, the CCOM has grown into an institution of high prestige at home and abroad capable of offering the whole range of curricula for musical training, and representing the level of music education in China.
 
There are nearly 1600 newly-enrolled students and some 700 teaching and administrative staffs. Professors and associate professors consists two thirds of the faculty. Over 3,000 students have graduated from the Conservatory. Many of the graduates are now the musical directors, concertmasters of the symphony orchestras, the core members of music schools, artistic organizations, and research institutes in all parts of China and world, and some of them have been ranked among the eminent Chinese musicians and won the international fames.
 
The Conservatory Campus occupies 5.3 hectors of land with a complex style of old and new buildings covering an area of nearly 60,000 square meters. The conservatory Music Library housing over 500,000 volumes is the largest one of the kind in China. The Conservatory owns over 500 pianos and a large number of other musical I instruments; its educational facilities include an electronic music studio with advanced recording and video equipments, and a violin workshop.
 
The Central Conservatory of Music is a holy palace for many musical talents in the country. For past 55 years, thousands of students have graduated from the Conservatory; some of them have established the international reputation. The students have won 481 prizes in major international music competitions, including the golden and silver medals in Tchaikovsky International Music Competition, 1801 prizes in national music competitions, 346 music compositions have been awarded in international and national competition. From 1987, 87 prizes for scientific achievements have been given to the CCOM.
 
CCOM has intensified international exchanges with other countries and established regular intercollegiate exchange or collaboration with many international institutions of music, by inviting foreign eminent musicians and scholars to teach or give lectures at the institution and by sending its own faculty members and students to other countries for further studies, giving lectures or performances.
 
A Number of international students from different countries studied in the Central Conservatory of Music, including students from Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Algeria, Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria and other countries.

Welcome to study at Central Conservatory of Music(中央音乐学院)