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Top 25 Art and design schools based in Italy
RevenueBase identified 102 art and design schools headquartered in Italy as of September 2026 and tracks 5,072 professional contacts across them, including 1,378 with verified work emails. Milano is the largest hub.
This list covers art and design schools headquartered in Italy, 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 Italy
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 626 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Università Iuav di Venezia is one of the leading universities in Europe and across the world in the fields of architecture, design, fashion, visual arts, urban and regional…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 305 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IAAD - The Italian University for Design was founded in 1978 in Turin and today, after more than 40 years of activity, it is one of the main centres of higher education in Italy…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 217 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “RUFA - University of Fine Arts è un centro didattico interdisciplinare e internazionale – Accademia di Belle Arti legalmente riconosciuta dal MUR, con base a Roma e Milano.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 169 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'Accademia di Belle Arti di Catania, ha iniziato la sua attività l’8 gennaio 1968, inaugurando una fase di rinnovo e si radicherà territorialmente come polo delle arti del…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 122 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fra le più antiche d’Italia, e pressoché unica a rimanere collocata nella sua collocazione originaria, l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna fu fondata nel 1710 per incentivare le…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 115 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LABA, Libera Accademia di Belle Arti legalmente riconosciuta dal MIUR, Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca, crede nel primato culturale dell’Italia e da vent’anni opera per…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 113 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Raffles Milano is the European hub of Raffles Education: the largest indipendent higher education design network globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1954, SPD is the first Italian school, conceived as a bridge to the creative professions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'istituto Pantheon organizza corsi professionali autorizzati, riconosciuti e accreditati dalla Regione Lazio con determinazione n.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 72 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Albertina Academy of Fine Arts is an institution of higher education in Turin, Italy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “TheSIGN - Comics & Arts Academy is the first Academy that teaches a combination of visual arts and marketing strategies in a 100% inclusive, stimulating and creative atmosphere.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondata nel 1973, l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Frosinone ha sede nel suggestivo palazzo Pietro Tiravanti, dove si trova anche il prestigioso MACA (Museo dell’Arte Contemporanea…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Accademia di Belle Arti GB Tiepolo nasce a Udine con lo scopo di offrire alla nostra regione una nuova opportunità culturale: avere la prima Accademia di Belle Arti in Friuli…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino è situata in uno dei luoghi simbolo del Rinascimento italiano: una città insignita del riconoscimento di Patrimonio Universale dell’UNESCO.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “NID, Nuovo Istituto di Design, è una scuola di formazione professionale che si occupa di architettura d’interni, moda, grafica, illustrazione e fotografia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Fondata nel 1764 dal pittore Giambettino Cignaroli, l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona è una delle cinque Accademie più antiche d’Italia e del mondo.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dal 1956 l’Accademia d’Arte e Design Leonetto Cappiello è il luogo ideale per esprimere la propria creatività e per tradurla in una reale opportunità di lavoro.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Formazione artistica- Design Industria - Design metalli oreficeria- Design Arredo e Legno - Arti Figurative - Architettura e Ambiente - Audiovisivo e multimedia” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Over the past 53 years, Santa Reparata International School of Art (SRISA) has established itself as a top art and design institution in Italy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 40 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ISIA Urbino is a graphic design and visual communication school.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata offre titoli di studio equipollenti alla Laurea di primo e secondo livello e fa parte delle istituzioni proprie dell’Alta Formazione…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dopo più di quarant’anni la UED, Università europea del design Pescara, è un riferimento per aziende nazionali ed internazionali grazie alla formazione fornita agli studenti, ai…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’Accademia di Belle Arti di Sanremo è l’università dell’arte della riviera ligure di Ponente, l’unica tra Genova e la Francia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Comics, Illustration, Graphic design, Animation, Web Design, Storytelling, Concept Art and more” 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 Italy at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Italy, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Italy, over 102 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 Italy 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 Italy 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, 1,378 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
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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 Italy?
RevenueBase identified 102 art and design schools headquartered in Italy 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?
Università Iuav DI Venezia, headquartered in Venezia, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most art and design schools?
Milano leads with 7 headquartered companies, followed by Roma (6) and Florence (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 1,378 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 102 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.