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Top 25 Art and design schools based in India
RevenueBase identified 382 art and design schools headquartered in India as of September 2026 and tracks 4,700 professional contacts across them, including 523 with verified work emails. Ahmedabad is the largest hub.
This list covers art and design schools headquartered in India, 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 India
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 425 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In its 26th year, Hamstech Institute stands as a unique world where creativity, free thinking and above all, individuality lives!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 335 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Frameboxx Animation & Visual Effects offers skill-based curricula to help students specialize their careers in Animation, VFX (Visual Effects), Game asset Design, Graphic Design…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 197 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “India’s Premier & Most Sought-After Design Institute!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 152 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For the past 20 years, Cindrebay has been dedicated to nurturing talent and advancing design education in India.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 137 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Indian Institute of Art & Design (IIAD) offers creative, studio-based design programmes at its world-class campus in New Delhi.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cadence Academy originated in the heart of the Country in Central India and takes pride in its legacy of 21 years in educating students to build a creative and rewarding career in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Bachelor of Design (B.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 2007, DSK International Campus has been one of the most renowned International Design Schools in the nation for over a decade.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 60 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ISDI School of Design and Innovation is committed to a new educational model inspired by the idea of design and innovation as transformative forces in society.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ARCH College of Design & Business, Jaipur is a leading institution dedicated to shaping creative professionals through a holistic, industry-aligned approach to design and business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 2003, Animaster Design College is one of the oldest & reputed Design Institute's in India, having consistently trained & placed over 7500 aspiring artists till date.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “THAKUR SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING (TSAP) is an architectural and design education Institute based out of B-BLOCK, THAKUR EDUCATIONAL CAMPUS, SHYAMNARAYAN THAKUR MARG THAKUR…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The D J Academy of Design belongs to the illustrious GKD charity trust set up in 1983 by the industrialist par excellence,(Late) Cavalier Dr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pandit Lakhmi Chand State University of Performing and Visual Arts, ab initio, established as Integrated Campus of the Government Technical Institution(s) Society came into…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “LISAA School of Design Bangalore is a design company based out of India.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “WIZTOONZ Academy of Media and Design, headquartered at Bangalore, is the top multimedia and animation college providing various courses in multimedia, animation and design.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 22 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Among the top design institutes in India, UID Unitedworld Institute of Design is a rarity.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 21 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Symbiosis School of Planning Architecture and Design (SSPAD) is an institution which brings together a perfect blend of three streams namely planning, architecture and design…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mission - To produce the most talented artists and entrepreneurs for AVGC Industry to make India a creative superpower.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “School of Design and Media - SDM offers Diploma and Degree courses in Graphic Design, UI/UX Design, Animation, Fashion, and Digital Engineering.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The International School of Creative Arts (ISCA) is a dedicated school for creative arts, design & media studies; promoted by ISDC - International Skill Development Corporation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We are a unique college, set up to identify, introduce and prepare students exclusively for a career in the Digital Media industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Artography Studio is a fine art institute for education in arts, nurturing the talent of emerging and established artists and promoting art to create a more creative world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “RUBIKA,India is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rubika S.A.S.U, Valenciennes, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Institute of Design, Nirma University Innovate.” 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 India at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for India, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for India, over 382 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 India 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 India 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, 523 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 India?
RevenueBase identified 382 art and design schools headquartered in India 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?
Hamstech College Of Creative Education, headquartered in Hyderabad, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most art and design schools?
Ahmedabad leads with 24 headquartered companies, followed by Mumbai (24) and Hyderabad (21).
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 523 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 382 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.