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Oberlin
Conservatory of Music
The
town of Oberlin, Ohio, now with an 8,600 population was
founded in the spring of 1833. Already in December 29 men and
15 women students began classes in the Oberlin Collegiate
Institute. In 1850 it became Oberlin College. The music
division became part of the College in 1867, two years after
its founding as a private school.
Present-day
Oberlin College reflects its early commitment to high
intellectual standards, liberal education, and excellence in
teaching and social and moral commitment.
The
academic programs of Oberlin College are based in its two
divisions: The College of Arts and Sciences (2,200 students)
and the Conservatory of Music (650students).
The
Conservatory of Music offers four-year undergraduate programs
of professional and academic studies leading to the Bachelor
of Music degree, as well as two-year programs leading to a
Performance Diploma (undergraduate) and an Artist Diploma (graduate).
The
Conservatory also offers limited graduate programs leading to
the Master of Music (opera theater, conducting), the Master of
Music Education and the Master of Music Teaching degrees. All
of these are five-year programs integrated with specific
undergraduate Oberlin Bachelor of Music degree programs.
Oberlin’s
facilities are unsurpassed by any school its size. It has one
of the nation’s most extensive college library collections,
one of the three finest college art collections in the country
and first-rate facilities and equipment in music, theater arts,
the natural sciences, computing and physical education.
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