It offers undergraduate courses in Music, Jazz and Popular Music Practice.

And postgraduate courses in Jazz, Conducting, Composition, Music, Musicology, Music Technology, Orchestral Performance, Vocal Performance, Performance and Pedagogy.

The Junior Conservatoire offers specialist tuition for students aged 8-18.

The facilities include practice rooms, a student union bar, refectory and coffee bar, 6 recording studios, a music library, the 520-seat Adrian Boult Hall, 120-seat Recital Hall, and 100-capacity Arena Foyer.

The Conservatoire was established as the Birmingham School of Music in 1886 and is now a department of the Faculty of Performance Media and English at Birmingham City University.

The Conservatoire will relocate to new premises, possibly the former Municipal Bank on Broad Street, when Paradise Circus is redeveloped in 2013 (News Headlines 06/08/10).

It is a grade-1-listed Gothic building dating from 1885.

The School of Art was established by the Birmingham Society of Artists in 1845 and moved to Margaret Street in 1885.

It is now a department of the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design which is in turn a faculty of Birmingham City University.

It is a registered charity hosting concerts, lectures and exhibitions.

The facilities include two lecture theatres, two conference rooms, six meeting rooms, a gallery room and a private lending library with almost 100,000 volumes.

Numerous societies meet at the Institute, including the Dickens Fellowship, the British Russian Society, the Society for the History of Astronomy, the Birmingham Philatelic Association and the Moseley and District United Nations Association.

The Birmingham and Midland Institute is a grade-II*-listed building.

It offers English language training and degree and postgraduate courses, particularly in business management and nursing.