Welcome to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is a World Top Ten institution for performing arts education.
(QS World Rankings 2025)
“One of the top performing arts institutions in the world” The Sunday Times, May 2024
Established in 1847, RCS is a dynamic international community of artists. Here you’ll develop your craft, create new work, and collaborate across art forms in one of the finest multi-disciplinary environments in the world.
Be part of a diverse centre of creativity with outstanding teaching, purpose-built facilities, and active partnerships with all of Scotland’s national performing arts companies.
Study at RCS
Be part of Scotland’s national conservatoire and one of the world’s top performing arts education institutions. You’ll be made to feel part of our inclusive and diverse environment from the very beginning of your studies.
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Find the Short Course, Junior Conservatoire, Undergraduate or Postgraduate programme for you.
In the Spotlight
Cowrie Foundation Scholarship 2025
We are now accepting applications for the Cowrie Foundation Scholarship 2025. The scholarship, delivered in partnership with the Cowrie Scholarship Foundation, covers home (UK) tuition fees and offers an £8000 yearly stipend and bespoke mentoring to a Black British student from an economically disadvantaged background for the duration of their studies at RCS. Applications close 13 June 2025.
MA Creative Arts Practice
Applications are open for our brand-new, online/blended MA in Creative Arts Practice! This one-year programme will help you shape your creative identity, develop critical thinking skills and build a sustainable career in the performing and production arts.
It will help you enhance your skills for freelance work, employment with creative agencies or further academic study, while expanding your professional network, and is designed to integrate with your existing arts practice.
Leverhulme Conducting Fellowship
Applications are now open for our two-year Leverhulme Conducting Fellowship, designed for conductors on the verge of a career, offered in association with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Scottish Opera. It includes a generous bursary for the successful candidate supported by the Leverhulme Trust and offers of paid work within RCS. The Fellowship will commence at the beginning of the new academic year in September 2025. Applications close at 5pm on 18 April 2025.
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What’s On
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland presents
RCS Choir
Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland presents
Maxwell Quartet & Maximiliano Martín
Part of Fridays at One
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland presents
Spring Awakening
Written by Frank Wedekind in a new version by Anya Reiss
Part of Awakenings
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