Facilities

Berklee's campus is home to a thriving community of musicians in Boston's historic and vibrant Back Bay and Fenway neighborhoods. This urban location is ideally suited to our programs - which emphasize real-world experience - and makes the entire city our campus.

CAMPUS EXPANSION IS ESSENTIAL:
GIVING PRIORITIES
Music Business/Liberal Arts Building$5,000,000
Contemporary Music Archives$5,000,000
Recording Studio$1,000,000
Mixing Facility$500,000
Classroom$250,000
Ensemble Rooms$100,000
Practice Rooms$50,000
Campaign Goal for Campus Expansion$20,000,000

With 14 owned and many leased properties, Berklee is an established presence in our neighborhood. But we house just 20 percent of the student body, book studios around the clock, use classrooms for 95 percent of available hours, and schedule our stages months in advance. Tremendous things have been accomplished in humble surroundings, but now is the time to create new facilities that are worthy of the talents of our students and faculty.

With the support of the city and neighborhood community, Berklee is committed to meeting its current and future facility needs through acquisition and development of property in our immediate neighborhood. We will create a cohesive campus environment with academic facilities within a central core, and continue to be a good neighbor to the surrounding community.

The campus we envision includes a prominent music business center to house the college's largest major, an expanded presence for liberal arts, significantly more housing, and purpose-built facilities to renew our highly integrated music technology program. Our campus community is an ideal environment to remember and research the contributions of seminal jazz and popular music creators, and a contemporary music archive is a part of our campus plan.tion be

Small Classes, Many Classrooms

Berklee's curriculum includes many courses that are taught in small groups-in studios, labs, ensembles, and, of course, one-on-one instruction in private lessons. In fact, the average class size at Berklee is 10, and the student to teacher ratio is 8:1, making for strong relationships and communications.

Space Limitations

Berklee's 14 campus facilities provide about 150 sq. ft. per student, as contrasted with 350 to 450 sq. ft. per student at other colleges in the area.tween students and faculty.

Learn more about naming facilities or buildings at Berklee.