Campus of Performing Arts (COPA) was founded in 2003 and is a contemporary music college with campuses in Midrand, Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban. Our courses are taught by trained facilitators who are also music industry specialists and/or professional musicians, giving our students access to one of the most rounded and intensive practical programmes currently available anywhere in the world. Music Performance: Bass, Drums, Guitar, Keyboard, and Vocals; Music Production (including Sound Technology, Sound Engineering and Disc Jockey); and Music Business. Students are not only trained in their chosen major, but also in modules like Music Business and Music Culture to ensure that they are well prepared for a successful career in the music industry. Each campus boasts fit-for-purpose facilities with a recording studio, a technology room, a performance venue and practice facilities for use by its students. Campus of Performing Arts (PTY) Ltd is provisionally registered with the Department of Higher Education and Training as a private higher education institution under the Higher Education Act, 1997. Registration certificate No.2011/HE07/004. Full accreditation by the CATHSSETA also allows COPA to train at an FET level as well as training previously disadvantaged individuals in the form of skills programmes, learnerships and bursaries (as and when SETA funding permits), on courses found on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF).