Online Degrees & Admissions

Admissions

Explore our online program admissions requirements, financial tools, and resources to determine if they are a match for you. Reach out to cfaapply@bu.edu with any questions along the way, or simply begin your application here!

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Admissions Requirements

The CFA Online Experience

Why online at Boston University?

As the first educational institution to offer online music degrees, Boston University has continued to be at the forefront of online programs. With fine arts and music offerings, the programs offer students the expert teaching and quality curricula that is a hallmark of Boston University.

Hear from our students and learn why the online programs continue to shape music and art education and educators.

Meet Our Graduates

Resources for Current Online Students

Are you a current student in an online program at CFA looking for information or forms? Find all the tools you need during your online Art Education and Music Education experience.

Online CFA Student Resources

Latest Stories

Explore what's new in the ever-expanding world of CFA student, faculty, and alumni news and work.

Jieun Lim (CFA'26), a Master of Arts in Art Education student at Boston University, is standing behind a colorful cardboard structure with four green legs, decorated with various paper cutouts and a QR code. Jieun appears to be working on or adjusting something on top of the structure. To the left and right of the structure are other cardboard creations partially covered with black fabric; the one on the right is wrapped with yellow caution tape. The setting appears to be an indoor room with a plain backdrop.
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This CFA Student Is Using Art to Help Medical Patients

Jieun Lim’s unusual path began with her own cancer diagnosis. Now, Lim (CFA’26) is earning a master of arts in art education and runs crafting workshops at Boston Medical Center for chemotherapy patients

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CFA Alumni

Connection Through Music

Grammy-nominated ensemble Palaver Strings, founded by two alums, is on a mission to address social injustice, expand music education, and build community

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CFA Alumni

The Role of Her Life (So Far)

Actor Sydney Lemmon was struggling to find work in early 2022. Then she auditioned to play an unhinged tech worker in therapy, and rediscovered her identity

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