1. Shenyang Conservatory of Music is a school. Shenyang Conservatory of Music is the only higher music and art college in Northeast China. The school is a national cultural quality education base for college students, a red classic art education demonstration base for colleges and universities, an advanced unit for national school art education, and an art talent training base in Liaoning Province. , Liaoning Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences, and was designated as a key construction university in Liaoning Province by the Liaoning Provincial People's Government.

2. The predecessor of Shenyang Conservatory of Music can be traced back to Lu Xun Art Institute. Lu Xun Art Institute was founded in Yan'an in April 1938 by Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and others. It was the first higher art institute founded by the Communist Party of China. In 1949, it was renamed Northeast Lu Xun Institute of Literature and Art. In 1953, Northeast Music College was established on the basis of the Music Department of Northeast Lu Xun Institute of Literature and Art, and in 1958 it was renamed Shenyang Conservatory of Music.

3. As of September 2014, Shenyang Conservatory of Music has 4 teaching campuses: the main campus, Changqing Campus (School of Art), Taoxian Campus (Dance School), and Dalian Campus (Dalian Branch).