The top ten universities in the music school rankings are: Central Conservatory of Music, China Conservatory of Music, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Shenyang Conservatory of Music, Xinghai Conservatory of Music, Xi'an Conservatory of Music, Wuhan Conservatory of Music, and Tianjin Conservatory of Music.

The Central Conservatory of Music, located in Beijing, was named and established in 1949 by the Government Affairs Council of the People's Government. It consists of the Music Department of Yan'an Lu Xun Art College, the Chongqing National Conservatory of Music, the Music Department of North China University, and the Music Department of the National Peking Art College Department of Music and other music education institutions merged to form.

It is an institution of higher learning that cultivates high-level professional music talents. It is a national "211 Project" construction institution, the only national key university among art colleges in the country, and a national "double first-class" discipline construction university.

As of November 2022, the school’s official website shows that the school has a composition department, a musicology department, a conducting department, a piano department, an orchestral department, a folk music department, a vocal opera department, and a music artificial intelligence and music information technology department. , School of Music Education, Violin Making Research Center, Department of Humanities, Affiliated Middle School of Music.

There are 3,667 full-time students in the School of Modern Distance Music Education, the School of Continuing Education, Gulangyu Piano School and other teaching faculties and departments, as well as the Institute of Musicology, a key research base for humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education. Among them, there are 1,586 undergraduate students, 753 master students, 178 doctoral students, and 1,150 students in the attached middle school (including the attached primary school). It was rated as "Capital Civilized Campus".