The Juilliard School is a private performing arts conservatory. Located in New York City's Upper West Side, the school boasts drama, music and dance departments that have nurtured talented and technically proficient artists and performers including Jamie Foxx, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Lar Lubovitch, Sarah Marshall and Marsha Clark. Juilliard admits students on the basis of a highly competitive audition. Other necessary application materials include an essay, letters of recommendation, and proof of high school-level study. A Juilliard student can choose to pursue a Bachelor's degree with a liberal arts component or a shorter, more performance-oriented Diploma in his field of study.
The Juilliard School
60 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023-6588
212-799-5000
juilliard.edu
Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, focuses on providing students with a thorough education in all aspects of the modern music business. The College offers twelve majors, including jazz composition, music production and engineering, songwriting and music therapy. Berklee's application requires an audition and interview and also considers academic qualifications. The college considers all applying students for scholarships at the time of the audition and interview.
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215 USA
617-266-1400
berklee.edu
Located in Baltimore, Maryland, the Maryland Institute College of Art offers undergraduate degrees in fields including ceramics, printmaking, interaction design and art, and general fine arts. MICA's graduate offerings include degrees in community arts, teaching, and photographic and electronic media. The Chronicle of Higher Education ranks MICA as the nation's leading incubator of recipients of Fulbright Scholarships, prestigious grants for overseas study and teaching. MICA alumni include Gabriela Bulisova, the Czech filmmaker famous for her striking, activist photo essays, Baltimore-born artist Shinique Smith, and the biologist-turned-artist who has shown her pieces internationally, Donna Conlon.
Maryland Institute College of Art
1300 West Mount Royal Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21217
410-669-9200
mica.edu
Stephens College is a private women's college in Columbia, Missouri. The Stephens College Theatre program, ranked among the Princeton Review's top ten college theater programs, offers a co-educational environment. The program offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Theatre Management, Theatre Arts, and Theatrical Costume Design.
Stephens College
1200 E. Broadway
Columbia, MO 65215
800-876-7207
stephens.edu