About
The Jazzschool at California Jazz Conservatory is a community music school and former private conservatory in Berkeley, California. It was the only independent music conservatory in the United States devoted solely to jazz and related styles of music. Located in the Downtown Berkeley Arts District, the CJC offered Associate, Bachelor's, and Master's degrees in Jazz Studies. The conservatory also offers community education classes and workshops for instrumentalists and vocalists and precollege youth programs for beginning, intermediate and advanced musicians. In July 2024, the conservatory announced that it would end its degree programs due to "significantly decreased enrollment and financial constraints." The degree programs ended after the fall 2024 semester, but community music programs continue under the name Jazzschool.
Admissions & acceptance rate
How selective is this institution, and how many admitted students choose to enroll?
Graduation rate & outcomes
Completion, retention, and the equity gap between Pell and non-Pell students.
Tuition & cost
What families actually pay, broken down by family income.
Academic programs at California Jazz Conservatory
Top program areas ranked by completions.
Top program families by completions
Enrollment trends & demographics
Fall headcount, 12-month unduplicated enrollment, and student body composition.
Gender split
Race / ethnicity composition
Student-faculty ratio
Student-to-faculty ratio and instructional staff counts.
California Jazz Conservatory vs Peer comparison
The peer institutions California Jazz Conservatory selected for federal comparison reporting.
A larger shape on any axis means this institution outperforms its peers on that dimension. For acceptance rate and net price, lower raw values are inverted so "more selective" and "more affordable" appear larger.
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SubjectCalifornia Jazz Conservatory | 100% | — | 6 | — | — |
American Film Institute Conservatory | — | — | 379 | — | — |
Art Academy of Cincinnati | 41% | 34.5% | 213 | $38,041 | — |
Boston Architectural College | 32% | — | 853 | $37,891 | — |
California College of ASU | 37% | 49.5% | 71 | $30,320 | — |
California College of the Arts | 61% | 91.1% | 1,308 | $42,168 | — |
Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science | — | — | 107 | — | — |
Cleveland Institute of Art | 58% | 61.3% | 545 | $41,480 | — |
Cleveland Institute of Music | 72% | 47.3% | 293 | $32,623 | — |
College for Creative Studies | 71% | 91.9% | 1,433 | $33,342 | — |
Columbus College of Art & Design | 56% | 67.7% | 916 | $30,139 | — |
Cornish College of the Arts | 56% | 62.2% | 505 | $39,060 | — |
Cranbrook Academy of Art | — | — | 113 | — | — |
Curtis Institute of Music | 100% | 4.6% | 161 | — | — |
Kansas City Art Institute | 58% | 54.8% | 813 | $29,555 | — |
Laguna College of Art and Design | 52% | 94.3% | 775 | $42,354 | — |
Longy School of Music of Bard College | — | 84.4% | 317 | $43,291 | — |
Maine College of Art & Design | 52% | 76.1% | 475 | $36,443 | — |
Maine Media College | — | — | 42 | — | — |
Manhattan School of Music | 78% | 40.8% | 1,084 | $47,599 | — |
Maryland Institute College of Art | 72% | 76.8% | 1,687 | $38,429 | — |
Massachusetts College of Art and Design | 69% | 76.3% | 1,989 | $23,764 | — |
Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design | 67% | 60.5% | 838 | $27,514 | — |
Minneapolis College of Art and Design | 51% | 48.5% | 831 | $25,935 | — |
Moore College of Art and Design | 57% | 56.5% | 549 | $43,369 | — |
New York Academy of Art | — | — | 106 | — | — |
New York School of Interior Design | 71% | 62.9% | 573 | $41,358 | — |
Otis College of Art and Design | 66% | 81.8% | 1,267 | $45,864 | — |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts | 58% | — | 41 | $45,022 | — |
Pennsylvania College of Art and Design | 69% | 99.2% | 414 | $29,266 | — |
Pratt Institute-Main | 74% | 73.3% | 5,356 | $50,647 | — |
Ringling College of Art and Design | 72% | 69.7% | 1,666 | $55,390 | — |
San Francisco Conservatory of Music | 74% | 54.9% | 439 | $42,448 | — |
School of the Art Institute of Chicago | 67% | 77.5% | 3,394 | $49,822 | — |
The Juilliard School | 91% | 9.2% | 1,073 | $37,903 | — |
The New England Conservatory of Music | 73% | 41.1% | 853 | $42,556 | — |
University of North Carolina School of the Arts | 78% | 30.0% | 1,111 | $12,372 | — |
University of the Arts | 69% | 78.2% | — | $44,154 | — |
| Peer group median | 68% | 62.6% | 573 | $39,060 |
Reports & documents (1)
Dashboards, factbooks, data dictionaries, and other reference material published by the IR office.
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