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Top 25 Art colleges based in France
RevenueBase identified 117 art colleges headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 8,383 professional contacts across them, including 1,854 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers art colleges headquartered in France, 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 colleges based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 839 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “avis ecole mjm” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 811 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LISAA - L'Institut Supérieur des Arts Appliqués École d'enseignement supérieur privée du groupe international Galileo Global Education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 687 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 451 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L'École de design Nantes Atlantique is an higher education institution specialised in design, creation and innovation, managed by the Chambre of Commerce of Nantes (France).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 401 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1984, ECV - École de Communication Visuelle is located in 5 majors French cities: Paris, Bordeaux, Nantes, Aix-en-Provence and Lille.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 250 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “École Intuit Lab is a French institute of design, digital and strategy co-founded in 2001 by academicians and designers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 222 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Strate, Ecole de Design, renommée en France et à l’international tant par l’écosystème académique que par les entreprises, forme des professionnels du design qui impacteront…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 211 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Groupe EDH is a French higher education group, and has been a leader in the fields of communication, artistic and cultural management, film, 3D film animation, journalism, graphic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 179 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1982, Les Ateliers-Paris Design Institute (École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle) is the only French national Institute exclusively devoted to industrial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 163 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’École Émile Cohl est un établissement privé d’enseignement supérieur artistique reconnu par l’État, résolument orienté dès la première année dans quatre domaines …” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 132 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Les Beaux-Arts de Paris ou École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts sont à la fois un lieu de formation et d’expérimentations artistiques, d’expositions et de conservation de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 121 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “edaa est une école spécialisée dans l’enseignement à distance des métiers créatifs et des arts appliqués: design d'objets, décoration intérieure, graphisme, photographie…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 112 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “About Paris College of Art (PCA): Founded in 1981, Paris College of Art (PCA) is a private university in Paris, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “ESAG Penninghen is a private establishment of higher education, accredited as such since 30 March 1953, registered at the French National Ministry of Education and Research.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Répartis sur 15 campus, 13 sous marque Ynov et 2 Eicar, dans 13 métropoles en France, le Groupe Ynov s’est installé depuis 10 ans dans le paysage de l’enseignement supérieur privé…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “La HEAR est née en 2011 de la fusion de l'École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg, de l'école supérieure d'art de Mulhouse - Le Quai et des enseignements supérieurs de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CREAPOLE - ESDI est un établissement d'enseignement supérieur de design et de création situé au cœur de Paris dans le 1er arrondissement.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Installée sur le site des Subsistances depuis 2007, l’Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Lyon (ENSBA) est un établissement supérieur d’enseignement artistique agréé par…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Depuis 1991, l'Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Appliqués et de Design et CFA a formé des centaines de graphistes, créatifs, infographistes, directeurs artistiques, web designers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Depuis plus de 50 ans, dans ses murs inspirés du Bauhaus de Dessau, l’ENSAAMA, désignée aussi Olivier de Serres révèle des créateurs dans les domaines du design et des métiers…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Un établissement déployé sur 4 sites : Brest, Lorient, Quimper et Rennes, • La première école publique française d’enseignement supérieur en art et en design par ses effectifs…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “L’École de Condé Lyon est l’une des principales institutions d’enseignement du design et des métiers d’arts de la ville.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Après dix ans d’études auprès d’un maître en peinture, Pierre-Jean CHAFFREY, Nathalie VIROT fonde la PETITE ACADÉMIE, une école de peinture, sculpture et théâtre, en 1996, à LYON.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “L’École Bleue Global Design forme ses étudiants aux métiers du design global (architecte d’intérieur, designer produit et designer graphique), ou de la scénographie culturelle…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 49 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fondée en 1748, l’École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Reims est l’une des plus anciennes écoles d’art de France.” 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 colleges. 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 colleges.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of art colleges, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name art colleges. 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 colleges based in France at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 117 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 colleges, 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 France whose own description of what they do matches “art colleges”. 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 colleges), 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 colleges, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France 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, 1,854 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.
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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 colleges, 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 colleges are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 117 art colleges headquartered in France 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?
MJM Graphic Design, headquartered in Paris, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most art colleges?
Paris leads with 32 headquartered companies, followed by Lyon (7) and Aix-En-Provence (3).
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 1,854 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 117 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.