Campus Bochum | Institute for Pop Music
The Institute for Pop Music was opened at the Bochum campus in October 2014 and began teaching and learning for the first students. It is an institute of Faculty 1 (Music) of the Folkwang University of the Arts, financed by additional funds from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. As a place of study and thought where pop music enters into the context of other art forms and is further developed in the context of popular culture, it is the second Folkwang Campus in Bochum alongside the Folkwang Theaterzentrum.
The institute is conceived as a place for young creatives, for artists and at the same time innovative actors in pop music and stands for a high artistic quality of popular music in teaching and studies. The 4-semester Master's degree program in Popular Music aims to promote excellent young personalities and revitalize the music scene in Germany.