Berklee College of Music, founded in 1945, is an independent music conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. It has an enrollment of approximately 4,000 students and a 2008 faculty of approximately 500. Berklee offers an accredited four-year baccalaureate degree or diploma, with majors in composition, contemporary writing & production, film scoring, jazz composition, music business/management, music education, music production and engineering, music synthesis, music therapy, performance, professional music, and songwriting.

Berklee was founded by Lawrence Berk and was originally named Schillinger House of Music, after his teacher Joseph Schillinger. The original purpose of the school was to highlight the Schillinger System of musical harmony and composition. After expansion of the school's curriculum in 1954, Berk changed the name to Berklee School of Music after his son Lee Berk.

When the school received its accreditation in 1973, the name was changed to Berklee College of Music. In 2003, Berkleemusic, the online branch of Berklee College of Music, was founded. The school's current president, Roger H.

Brown, was installed in 2004.

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