CSC Scholarship at China Conservatory of Music: Application Guide

Scope: 2026 intake, international undergraduate, master's and doctoral students at the China Conservatory of Music (中国音乐学院), Beijing, from the conservatory's own international students pages and prospectus PDFs. See the recorded official notices and any source qualifications below.

Application fee

The China Conservatory of Music charges an application fee of CNY 800 (报名费：800元人民币) at undergraduate, master's and doctoral level, stated identically in all three of its 2026 international student prospectuses, and the fee is not refunded whether or not the applicant sits the examination.

Verified fact

The 2026 international undergraduate registration window ran 13 to 20 January 2026, per the 中国音乐学院2026年留学生本科招生简章; the master's window ran 20 December 2025 to 15 January 2026, per the 2026年留学生硕士研究生招生简章; and the doctoral window ran 23 February to 9 March 2026, per the 2026年留学生博士研究生招生简章.

Tuition

Tuition at the China Conservatory is CNY 32,000 per academic year for international undergraduates, CNY 38,000 for master's students and CNY 42,000 for doctoral students, paid in one annual instalment within two weeks of the start of the autumn semester, with late payers treated as abandoning their student status and no refund on mid-course withdrawal.

Accommodation

International student apartment accommodation at the China Conservatory costs CNY 52 or CNY 60 per person per day depending on the room, with water, electricity and gas charged separately; the conservatory publishes no monthly or annual accommodation rate.

Medical insurance

Comprehensive medical insurance for international students at the China Conservatory costs CNY 800 per academic year, and students who do not buy it are not registered, per Chinese Ministry of Education rules.

Scholarship

The China Conservatory publishes two scholarships for international students on its English admission pages: the Chinese Government Scholarship and the Beijing Government Scholarship, stating in each case that the conservatory is a listed institution that can admit students under those programmes.

Intake

For the 2026 intake the conservatory offered 北京市政府外国留学生奖学金 places to international students (学校2026年度设立《北京市政府外国留学生奖学金》若干名，考生可根据成绩提出申请), with the number of places subject to the funding allocated by the higher authority for the year.

Language requirement

Undergraduate international applicants to the China Conservatory must hold HSK Level 4, and master's and doctoral applicants must hold HSK Level 5, per the 2026 prospectuses.

Intake

From 2026 undergraduate applicants to the China Conservatory must also submit CSCA (来华留学本科入学学业水平测试) Chinese and mathematics transcripts, registered through the official CSCA site www.csca.cn.

Programmes

The China Conservatory's undergraduate programmes run four or five years (musicology, music education, orchestral instruments, Chinese instruments and piano four years; composition and conducting five years), and master's and doctoral programmes each run three years.

Institution profile

The conservatory was founded in 1964, is a national 'Double First-class' institution and a Beijing 'high-level research university', hosts the secretariat of the Global Music Education League, and holds first-level doctoral authority in art studies and a professional doctoral authority in music, with a postdoctoral research station.

CSC agency number

The CSC host list published by campuschina.org on 14 January 2026 lists the China Conservatory (中国音乐学院 / China Conservatory) as host institution number 45 under Beijing; that appendix carries host-list sequence numbers only and has no agency-code column, so it cannot supply deadline.agencyNumber.

Contact

The International Students Office of the China Conservatory's International Exchange Department is at 1 Anxiang Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101; telephone 0086-10-64887358 (international students office), fax 0086-10-64879974, application email zyywb@126.com, and the English-language office contact is ccmusicwb@163.com on 010-64877114.

Tuition notes

The conservatory publishes tuition per academic year by degree level in its own 2026 international student prospectuses. The undergraduate prospectus states 外国留学生本科生学费每学年32000元人民币. The master's prospectus states 硕士研究生学费每学年38000元人民币. The doctoral prospectus states 新生入学需缴纳学费每学年42000元人民币. All three state that tuition must be paid in a single annual instalment within two weeks of the start of the autumn semester, that students who fail to pay in time are treated as abandoning their student status (逾期未交者按自动放弃学籍处理), and that tuition is not refunded if a student withdraws mid-course. These are per-year charges and are never an application fee.

2026 doctoral dates

The doctoral prospectus gives registration February 23–March 9, 2026; posted paper materials were due March 1, 2026. These deadlines are closed and separate from undergraduate and master admission. Source: https://gjjl.ccmusic.edu.cn/docs/2026-02/b306546bc108467c9cafdabac1e6d68e.pdf

Source: China Conservatory of Music 2026 international student prospectuses — 中国音乐学院2026年留学生本科招生简章 (13 January 2026), 中国音乐学院2026年留学生硕士研究生招生简章 (20 December 2025) and 中国音乐学院2026年留学生博士研究生招生简章 (26 January 2026) — published as PDFs on the International Exchange Department site gjjl.ccmusic.edu.cn, with the English admission pages on en.ccmusic.edu.cn. Fees and dates can change: confirm the current intake on the official notice before paying anything.