RCM-NAFA degree programme

The Royal College of Music, University of Arts Singapore and Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) work in collaboration to offer an undergraduate degree programme for students studying in Singapore.

The RCM-UAS|NAFA Bachelor of Music (Honours) (BMus) is a 4-year degree delivered in Singapore with an International Placement in London. The programme reflects the main elements of the BMus degree taken by RCM students in London and provides a similar education for world-class practice-based musicians.

Apply to the Bachelor of Music (Honours) degree

All students on the BMus degree focus on a principal study specialism alongside a variety of core and elective modules. This enables students to develop strong foundations of professional practice, moving to more specialist areas of particular interest. Uniquely, students are able to specialise in a range of Chinese instruments for principal study, allowing them to engage at a high level with the rich musical traditions of Singapore.

Those studying western instruments spend seven weeks in London at the Royal College of Music, enabling NAFA students to immerse themselves in London’s exceptional cultural life while undergoing an intensive period of 1-to-1 study with RCM professors and having the chance to take part in the RCM’s performance programme.

Those students studying Chinese instruments spend their placement at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, benefitting from the specialist skills and facilities offered there.

The RCM-UAS|NAFA programme is generously supported by the Singaporean government, enabling talented Singaporean musicians to develop and build their careers, be it as performers, composers, educators or musical entrepreneurs, and in so doing to sustain and build on the thriving and growing musical life of Singapore and Southeast Asia.

The RCM’s relationship with NAFA was established in 2010 with the launch of the original RCM/NAFA BMus degree programme – the first time in the RCM’s prestigious 130-year history that its degrees were awarded outside the United Kingdom.