Berklee College of Music

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Everything we know

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About

instance of	private university private not-for-profit educational institution college of music
inception	1945
founder	Lawrence Berk
native label	Berklee College of Music
motto text	Esse quam videri (la)
legal form	Domestic Business Corporation
industry	higher education
academic calendar type	semester

Location and contact

country	United States
located in the administrative territorial entity	Boston
headquarters location	Boston
street address	1140 Boylston St, Boston, MA, 02215
coordinate location	42.3464, -71.0869
official website	https://college.berklee.edu/ · language of work or name: English

People and numbers

count of students	5,272 6,736 · full-time equivalent · 1 September 2021
employees	1,577 · September 2020
admission rate	52% · 2020
admission yield rate	31% · 2020

Rankings and recognition

Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education	special focus four-year: arts, music and design schools very high undergraduate postbaccalaureate: single program - other four-year, medium, primarily nonresidential four-year, full-time, inclusive, higher transfer-in arts & sciences focus, some graduate coexistence

Finances

endowment	$389,156,646 · 30 June 2022 Earlier figures (2) $446,628,415 · 30 June 2021 $327,571,106 · 30 June 2020
total assets	$761,618,023 · 30 June 2020

Structure and memberships

parent organization or unit	Berklee
affiliation	New England Association of Schools and Colleges
member of	Association of American Colleges and Universities American Council on Education

Images and media on Wikimedia Commons (2)

image	Berklee.JPG · media legend: Berklee College of Music. (fr)
logo image	Berklee College of Music logo and wordmark.svg

Wikimedia and technical details (5)

Commons category	Berklee College of Music
topic's main category	Category:Berklee College of Music
category for alumni of educational institution	Category:Berklee College of Music alumni
category for employees of the organization	Category:Berklee College of Music faculty
social media followers	65,919 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 15279886 · 6 February 2023 1,680,000 · YouTube channel ID: UCS3dfr0uOIC6OP-rSECVPMA · 14 June 2025 Earlier figures (5) 65,800 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 15279886 · 2 March 2022 65,437 · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 15279886 · 5 January 2021 1,620,000 · YouTube channel ID: UCS3dfr0uOIC6OP-rSECVPMA · 29 April 2024 1,560,000 · YouTube channel ID: UCS3dfr0uOIC6OP-rSECVPMA · 17 February 2023 1,370,000 · YouTube channel ID: UCS3dfr0uOIC6OP-rSECVPMA · 1 July 2021

Identifiers in other databases (38)

Facebook username	BerkleeCollege
Freebase ID	/m/02g839
GeoNames ID	4930383
GND ID	10366051-3
Golden ID (archived)	Berklee_College_of_Music-PVDMG
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)	3342327 · subject named as: БЕРКЛИ МУЗЫКАЛЬНЫЙ КОЛЛЕДЖ
GRID ID	grid.427946.a
Instagram location ID	1482316
Instagram username	berkleecollege
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ID	164748
ISNI	000000012224870X
J9U entity ID	987007583667505171
KISTI ID	K000208835
Legal Entity Identifier	54930060UKR0UD7IR730
Library of Congress Authorities ID	no91009486
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)	193106197
MusicBrainz artist ID	cfff8fae-3d81-4d7e-bbde-626d9ad7da55
MusicBrainz label ID	a3428ee5-a96e-4e82-9d04-223fd1367f73
MusicBrainz place ID	a0a84e8d-1cc0-4e80-aeea-383834cfe449
National Library of Israel ID (old)	001799569
NDL Authority ID	00948485
NLAI ID	1521218 · subject named as: کالج موسیقی برکلی · subject named as: Berklee College of Music
PermID	5000323434
Quora topic ID	Berklee-College-of-Music
Reddit topic ID (obsolete)	berklee_college_of_music
Ringgold ID	32645
ROR ID	05k9wtr55
SEVIS school ID	6521
SNARC ID	Q48539
Threads username	berkleecollege
Times Higher Education World University ID	berklee-college-music
VIAF cluster ID	144530326
World Higher Education Database ID	IAU-001612
X (Twitter) username	BerkleeCollege · has characteristic: verified account or profile · X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 15279886 · 29 February 2020
Yle topic ID	18-136155
YouTube channel ID	UCS3dfr0uOIC6OP-rSECVPMA · subject named as: Berklee College of Music · number of works: 1,923 · number of subscribers: 1,270,000 · number of viewers/listeners: 286,602,494 · 5 December 2020
‎Scilit organization ID	19895
‎Yale LUX ID	group/72602eae-9d0f-4ff8-95d9-1a983133335f