The Schools of CFA: The Ultimate Training Ground
CFA DEGREES & PROGRAMS
With more than 30 programs of study, on-campus and online modalities, and a full range of undergraduate and graduate options, CFA educates artists, musicians, performers, scholars, and educators at all stages of their professional careers.
Who Are We?
With programs in Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts, Boston University College of Fine Arts offers a wide array of pre-college, undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs, as well as a range of online degrees and certificates.
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The BU College of Fine Arts Experience
CFA Magazine
Making art and an impact. Discover the amazing stories of CFA's dynamic alums, friends, and faculty as well as the innovation happening right here on BU's campus.
Check out the most recent issue of CFA magazine, featuring the latest stories from the CFA Terrier community of artists, educators, and activists, including BU alums making impacts across all fields. Learn about CFA's new sustainable pigment and dye garden, an actor who's found commercial success opposite one famous emu, a pipe organ player who has taken his love for instrument all over the world, and an artist whose work explores blindness and its complexities.
Find their work everywhere from the small screen to outer space (Literally. Designing flight suits for astronauts!)
CFA's Latest Stories
Explore what's new in the ever-expanding world of CFA student, faculty, and alumni news and work.
BU School of Music Students to Shine at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall
The annual BU concert at New York City’s renowned performance venue spotlights student competition winners
Six BU Alums Celebrated in Latest Forbes Lists
Viral playground interviewer Julian Shapiro-Barnum (CFA'21) is among the Terriers honored
Helping Music Students Achieve Their Dreams
Alum Clare Hodgson Meeker established a fellowship to help School of Music students pursue their dreams
A Redemption Arc, In Three Acts
Mark Arnold’s acting career began with stardom. Then he hit rock bottom. Now he’s ready to star again.
BU Tanglewood Institute Receives $15,000 Award from the National Endowment for the Arts
The grant will support BUTI's 2025 Young Artists Orchestra and Wind Ensemble
A Semester to Remember: Fall 2024 at CFA
From a University-wide vision for making the arts front and center across BU to revivals of musicals and operas, CFA’s Fall 2024 was a season of artistic brilliance.
The Pipe Organ Master
Peter Krasinski has taken his love for the behemoth instrument all over the world
BU Art Galleries’ Spring 2025 Exhibitions Explore Landscape, Perception, and Meaning
Trasluz / Translucent, works by Juan José Barboza-Gubo and Michael Zachary, and Constituent Parts: Cathy Della Lucia and Nicholas Antony Mancini in Dialogue challenge our thinking of how we make sense of the world
Upcoming Events
There's always something going on at the College of Fine Arts! Check out all upcoming concerts, productions, exhibitions, lectures, and community events.
Constituent Parts - Cathy Della Lucia and Nicholas Anthony Mancini in Dialogue
Trasluz / Translucent - Works by Juan José Barboza-Gubo and Michael Zachary
Sarah Nemtsov at the BU Composer’s Forum
Opening Reception for "Trasluz/Translucent" Exhibition
Constituent Parts - Cathy Della Lucia and Nicholas Anthony Mancini in Dialogue
Trasluz / Translucent - Works by Juan José Barboza-Gubo and Michael Zachary
Pierre Boulez • Fold by Fold: the radical who rebuilt the musical world
Constituent Parts - Cathy Della Lucia and Nicholas Anthony Mancini in Dialogue
CFA In The News
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