Associate of the Royal College of Music

Associate of the Royal College of Music (ARCM) is a diploma qualification of the Royal College of Music. Like the Licentiate of the Royal Academy of Music diploma, it was formerly offered in a teaching or performing version, but unlike the latter it is no longer available.[1]

There is no obvious successor to the ARCM, since the College's undergraduates now follow a BMus(Hons) course accredited by the College itself; although in 2012 approximately a quarter of the academic staff included ARCM in their lists of qualifications. [2] When the basic graduate course led to the Graduate of the Royal Schools of Music diploma, a condition of graduating was an ARCM pass in Teaching or Performing, achieved no later than a year before graduation.

Those awarded the diploma are entitled to use the post-nominal letters ARCM and to wear the appropriate academic dress: black bachelors' gown with a royal blue silk hood of simple shape, the cowl part-lined 3 inches and bound 1/4 inch with old gold silk, the neckband fully lined and bound 1/4 inch of old gold silk.

References
  1. archived link Incorporated Society of Musicians website
  2. Archived 2011-11-08 at the Wayback Machine Royal College of Music prospectus 2012
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