Professional music colleges are the first to promote the Central Conservatory of Music and Shanghai Conservatory of Music. What else is there? Shenyang Conservatory of Music, Wuhan Conservatory of Music, Xi Conservatory of Music, Sichuan Conservatory of Music and so on.

The Music Department of a comprehensive university is the first to promote the Conservatory of Music of Beijing Normal University and the Conservatory of Music of Shanghai Normal University. This is the first and second school of the Conservatory of Music in a comprehensive university.

Music colleges for music majors have detailed directions and are systematic because they are professional schools, including music performance, musicology, music education, composition, solfeggio, music engineering, music psychotherapy, music production and so on.

General comprehensive universities mainly focus on music education and offer music performances at the same time. Some schools will also have music production and music manager direction. Normal university is like this.

The requirements for the cultural scores of professional music colleges are low, and the cultural scores of music departments of comprehensive universities need to be included in the total score according to a certain proportion, but the professional scores are still the main ones.