What is the relationship between Peabody Conservatory and the Johns Hopkins University?
Peabody is a school of The Johns Hopkins University. The Johns Hopkins University is often termed “decentralized.” There are advantages and disadvantages to being in a decentralized system. The major advantages are that each school of the University is free to behave much like an independent institutiondeveloping itself to meet the needs of its students, and not having to compete for resources with other schools. Business matters are taken care of centrally, so there is minimum duplication of effort for such things as billing, health insurance, etc.. As a result, schools with radically different missions (such as medicine, international studies, public health, and music) and research facilities like the Applied Physics Lab can all coexist under one central administrative umbrella. As a school of The John’s Hopkins University, Peabody students are JHU students, and have access to most of the opportunities and activities available to students at the School of Arts and Sciences. A Peabody
