The school was founded at different times: Berkeley Conservatory of Music was founded at 1945, and Berkeley University was founded at 1868. Different geographical locations: Berkeley Conservatory of Music is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and Berkeley University is located in Berkeley, San Francisco Bay Area, USA.

The nature of running a school is different: Berkeley Conservatory of Music is a private university, while Berkeley University is a public university. There are different types of schools: Berkeley Conservatory of Music is an art school, and Berkeley University is a comprehensive research university.

I. Berkeley Conservatory of Music

Berkeley Conservatory of Music is an American private conservatory of music. 202 1 Forbes ranking of American universities, Berkeley Conservatory of Music ranked 499th. In 2022, Times Higher Education ranked 50 1-600 in American universities. Berkeley Conservatory of Music now has about 4,300 students with a four-year schooling. The school opened its second campus in Spain on 20 12.

The majors of Berkeley Conservatory of Music mainly include: composition, modern composition and production, electronic music production, jazz production, film soundtrack, music management, music education, music production and engineering, music therapy, music performance (brass, woodwind, piano, guitar, percussion, vocal music, ensemble performance) and jazz.

Second, the University of Berkeley.

The University of California, Berkeley, located in Berkeley, San Francisco Bay Area, USA, is a public research university, known as the "public Ivy League", a member of association of american universities, and a member of the Global University Presidents Forum, and has been selected into the British Government's "Visa Program for High Potential Talents". In 2023, the University of California, Berkeley ranked fourth in the ranking of American news world universities.

The majors of Berkeley University mainly include: Art History Department, Art Practice Department, Classical Art Department, Comparative Literature Department, Drama Art Department, East Asian Language Department, English Department, French Department, German Department, Italian Studies Department, Music Department, Near East Studies Department, Philosophy Department, Rhetoric Department, Scandinavian Language Department, Biology Department, Molecular and Cell Biology Department, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, Cell and Developmental Biology Department and Genetics Department.