Online Degrees & Admissions
Admissions
Explore our online program admissions requirements, financial tools, and resources to determine if they are a match for you. Reach out to cfaapply@bu.edu with any questions along the way, or simply begin your application here!
We look forward to hearing from you.
The CFA Online Experience
Why online at Boston University?
As the first educational institution to offer online music degrees, Boston University has continued to be at the forefront of online programs. With fine arts and music offerings, the programs offer students the expert teaching and quality curricula that is a hallmark of Boston University.
Hear from our students and learn why the online programs continue to shape music and art education and educators.
Resources for Current Online Students
Are you a current student in an online program at CFA looking for information or forms? Find all the tools you need during your online Art Education and Music Education experience.
Latest Stories
Explore what's new in the ever-expanding world of CFA student, faculty, and alumni news and work.
Creatives in Practice: Dan DiPiero
The musicology & ethnomusicology assistant professor is researching, presenting, publishing, and writing books on the wave of contemporary queer and feminist indie rock bands, and on the role gender plays in the reception of music
The Museum of the Mind
Inspired by objects unearthed on archaeological digs, James Gold paints artifacts of his own invention, from papyrus scrolls to woven tapestries to stone mosaics
BU Alums in the Running for Tony Awards
Nominated for Broadway’s highest honor in acting, sound design, costume design, and producing
Beyond the Classroom: Yaming Jiang (CFA’23,’26)
Recent MA art education graduate, Yaming Jiang (CFA'23,'26), switched roles from student to educator, teaching art to elementary school students in South Boston
BU Art Galleries’ summer exhibition, Right to the City, combats the global repercussions of gentrification
Anchored by images taken by photographic ethnographer Dominic Moulden (Hon.'25), Right to the City serves as a call to action, uplifting ways to safeguard the fundamental human right to a healthy place called home
Lynne Allen Named Interim Dean of College of Fine Arts
CFA professor will serve until a successor to Dean Harvey Young is chosen
Brothers Graduating from College of Fine Arts School of Music Excited to Go from Ensemble to Solo
Nathaniel and Ian Aistrup reflect on their time together in the strings program—and look ahead to their separate careers
For Thousands of BU Graduate Students, Commencement Is a Step Toward a New Profession
These Terriers are changing the world, including DMA in Violin Performance graduate, Kahn Awards finalist, and double Terrier Aija Reke (CFA’15,’26)
CFA In The News
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