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Top 25 Art and design schools based in Germany
RevenueBase identified 85 art and design schools headquartered in Germany as of September 2026 and tracks 2,347 professional contacts across them, including 456 with verified work emails. Berlin is the largest hub.
This list covers art and design schools headquartered in Germany, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest art and design schools based in Germany
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 584 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Berlin University of the Arts is one of the biggest, most diversified and traditional universities of the arts world-wide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 168 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mediadesign Hochschule (mdh) is one of Germany’s leading universities for media, design, and digital innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Where academic excellence meets the passion for forward-thinking projects Since 2008, the Media University of Applied Sciences (formerly HMKW) has been dedicated to helping…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart mit ihrer mehr als 250-jährigen Geschichte ist eine der größten Kunsthochschulen in Deutschland.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle zählt zu den großen und international agierenden Kunsthochschulen in Deutschland mit 23 Studiengängen in den Fachbereichen Kunst und…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Offenbach is the Hessen State University of Art and Design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The University of the Arts Bremen is the leading art academy in northwest Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WELCOME TO A CREATIVE PLACE Entdecke deine Kreativität an der htk academy in den Ausbildungsgängen Kommunikationsdesign, Game Creation, Illustrationsdesign und 3D Visual FX &…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM), eröffnet im Jahr 1990, bietet ein avanciertes Konzept, das die Bereiche exMedia, Film und Fernsehen, Kunst sowie Kunst- und…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die junge Hochschule im Herzen Nordrhein-Westfalens mit den Standorten Essen-Kupferdreh und Wuppertal bietet seit 2013 die drei künstlerischen Studiengänge Malerei/Grafik…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe is a hochschulwesen company based out of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig ist eine der führenden Kunsthochschulen Deutschlands und die einzige staatliche Kunsthochschule in Niedersachsen.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Integrated, Interdisciplinary, International For more than 20 years, KISD – Köln International School of Design has been offering its students a unique project-oriented learning…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK) ist eine künstlerisch-wissenschaftliche Hochschule.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The SAE Institute in Berlin offers a diploma and a bachelor's degree in eight departments in German and English.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wir lassen kreative Herzen höher schlagen!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “An der 1918 gegründeten Merz Akademie können Studierende ihre kulturellen und wissenschaftlichen Interessen mit einem Gestaltungsstudium verbinden, denn die Ausbildung geht über…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Kreative Inhalte und wirtschaftlicher Background oder Managementfähigkeit mit einem fundierten Verständnis für kreative Prozesse: An der Medienakademie WAM in Dortmund werden die…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Städelschule) Frankfurt is a hochschulwesen company based out of Hesse, Germany.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fachbereich Gestaltung der Hochschule Bielefeld.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DFI is a top-flight address for vocational training in graphic arts and communication design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die Schule für Bildende Kunst und Gestaltung wurde vom Kunstmaler Andrei Krioukov im Jahr 2003 in Kassel gegründet, 2009 zog diese nach Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg um.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar is an interdisciplinary university of arts with courses in fine arts, design and art education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “An der Designakademie Rostock gibt es verschiedene Möglichkeiten, sich für eine Tätigkeit in der Kultur- und Kreativbranche zu qualifizieren.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “More than 1200 students study at the Campus for Art and Design in Trier in a lively, interdisciplinary and international exchange.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: art and design schools. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names art and design schools.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of art and design schools, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name art and design schools. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Art and design schools based in Germany at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Germany, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Germany, over 85 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among art and design schools, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in Germany whose own description of what they do matches “art and design schools”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names art and design schools), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among art and design schools, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Germany are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 456 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names art and design schools, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many art and design schools are there based in Germany?
RevenueBase identified 85 art and design schools headquartered in Germany as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Universität DER Künste Berlin, headquartered in Berlin Berlin, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most art and design schools?
Berlin leads with 10 headquartered companies, followed by Stuttgart (6) and Hamburg (5).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 456 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 85 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.