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Top 25 Art schools based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 107 art schools headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 10,611 professional contacts across them, including 3,495 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers art schools headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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.
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The 25 largest art schools based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4,067 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “About UAL University of the Arts London (UAL) is Europe’s largest specialist art and design university.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,200 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1837, the Royal College of Art is the world’s leading art and design university.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,198 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) we are defined by creativity and innovation, giving our students unparalleled opportunities to drive change and show entrepreneurship…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 727 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AUB is an Arts, Design, Media and Performance Specialist University.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 576 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The GSA is internationally recognised as one of Europe's foremost higher education institutions for creative education and research in fine art, design and architecture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 364 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Leeds Arts University is the only specialist arts university in the North of England and has been delivering high quality art and design provision for over 160 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 350 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Arts University Plymouth is the UK’s newest specialist arts university, delivering practice-based creative education across art, design, craft and digital media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 219 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Edinburgh College of Art has always been a place of experimentation and collaboration, celebrated for enabling students from different disciplines to work alongside and with each…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 98 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Exceptional education for creative careers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “KAA is an 11 – 18 Performing & Creative Arts specialist academy situated in the heart of North Kensington.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hereford College of Arts is a dedicated arts college with a specialist focus on art, media, design, popular music and performing arts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Victoria College of Arts and Design was founded with a mission to shape the creative industry to inspire, educate, and transform lives.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Bristol Old Vic Theatre School was opened in 1946 by Sir Laurence Olivier.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts (CSVPA) is a dedicated arts and performance school in the centre of Cambridge.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are one of the UK's leading art and design institutions and part of the University of Southampton.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Birmingham Ormiston Academy is an independent state-funded 14–19 academy specialising in Creative, Digital and Performing Arts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Based in the heart of Manchester, a vibrant and multicultural city, we are an innovator of art and design education in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We're overhauling access routes into the creative industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Corsham School, a Visual Arts College, is a highly successful mixed secondary school based in Corsham, Wiltshire with a second specialism in Maths and Computing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “BN1 Arts is a centre for professional courses, classes, workshops, and industry talks.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are one of the world’s leading art and design schools and we have been influencing, inspiring and innovating for over 175 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We provide quality tuition suitable for all levels from complete beginners to those with more experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Fine Arts College we have a distinctive educational philosophy that informs our approach to teaching and our cultivation of a welcoming, collaborative College.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Margate School (TMS) is an independent, non-profit & postgraduate liberal arts school.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fresh Arts is an expert provider of arts education for children of all ages.” 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 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 schools.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of art schools, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name art 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 schools based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 107 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 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 the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “art 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 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 schools, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom 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, 3,495 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.
Art schools by metro
- Art schools in London33
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 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 schools are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 107 art schools headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?
University Of The Arts London, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most art schools?
London leads with 33 headquartered companies, followed by Edinburgh (8) and Glasgow (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 3,495 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 107 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.