About The Boston Conservatory

Boston Conservatory at Berklee (formerly The Boston Conservatory) is a performing arts arts school associated in the song of the Berklee College of Music and located in Boston, Massachusetts. It grants undergraduate and graduate degrees in music, dance and theater.

Founded in 1867, the conservatory offers Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Music, Master of Fine Arts and Master of Music degrees, as well as Graduate Performance Diplomas, Artist Diplomas, and Professional Studies Certificates.

In 2016, Berklee College of Music and The Boston Conservatory merged. The combine institution, located in Boston’s historic Back Bay and Fenway neighborhoods, is now known as “Berklee,” with the military institute being “Boston Conservatory at Berklee.”

Boston (US: /ˈbɔːstən/, UK: /ˈbɒstən/) is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States and 21st most populous city in the United States. The city proper covers 48.4 square miles (125 km2) with an estimated population of 692,600 in 2019, also making it the most populous city in New England. It is the chair of Suffolk County (although the county meting out was disbanded upon July 1, 1999). The city is the economic and cultural broadcaster of a substantially larger metropolitan area known as Greater Boston, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 4.8 million people in 2016 and ranking as the tenth-largest MSA in the country. A broader combined statistical area (CSA), generally corresponding to the commuting Place and including Providence, Rhode Island, is house to some 8.2 million people, making it the sixth most populous in the United States.

Boston is one of the oldest municipalities in the United States, founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from the English town of the similar name. It was the scene of several key undertakings of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill and the Siege of Boston. Upon American independence from Great Britain, the city continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub as well as a middle for education and culture. The city has expanded beyond the native peninsula through home reclamation and municipal annexation. Its rich history attracts many tourists, with Faneuil Hall alone drawing more than 20 million visitors per year. Boston’s many firsts add together the United States’ first public park (Boston Common, 1634), first public or confess school (Boston Latin School, 1635) and first subway system (Tremont Street subway, 1897).

Today, Boston is a thriving center of scientific research. The Boston area’s many colleges and universities make it a world leader in vanguard education, including law, medicine, engineering and business, and the city is considered to be a global entrepreneur in press on and entrepreneurship, with approximately 5,000 startups. Boston’s economic base along with includes finance, professional and business services, biotechnology, information technology and running activities. Households in the city claim the highest average rate of humanity in the United States; businesses and institutions rank accompanied by the top in the country for environmental sustainability and investment. The city has one of the highest costs of blooming in the United States as it has undergone gentrification, though it remains high on world livability rankings.