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Top 25 Arts schools based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 606 arts schools headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 11,193 professional contacts across them, including 3,211 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers arts 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 arts schools based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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. | |||||
| 2 | 601 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Guildhall School of Music & Drama is a vibrant, international community of musicians, actors and production artists in the heart of the City of London.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 502 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) is a place like nowhere else, powered by performance, its people and their passion.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 479 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, a specialist conservatoire within the University of London, nurtures artists and performers that will lead the way in radically…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 389 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Pauline Quirke Academy is a weekend performing arts academy providing tuition for children and young people from 4-18 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 367 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LAMDA - Training Exceptional Artists LAMDA is the oldest drama school in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 229 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts opened in 1996 to forge a new approach to performing arts training.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 222 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Rose Bruford College is a specialist conservatoire training the next generation of artists, makers, technicians, and thinkers across the creative industries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 215 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, the National Conservatoire of Wales, competes alongside an international peer group of conservatoires and specialist arts colleges for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 215 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Mountview is a world-class leader in UK drama training dedicated to developing actors, actor musicians, musical theatre performers, production technicians, stage managers and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 204 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Royal Ballet School is one of the world’s most celebrated centres for classical ballet training.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The BRIT School is the UK’s leading non-fee paying performing and creative artscschool located in Selhurst, Croydon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 167 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Leeds Conservatoire is a specialist conservatoire in the UK, delivering expert music and performing arts education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Arts Educational Schools London (ArtsEd) based in Chiswick, West London is recognised across the globe as a centre of excellence for training in the performing arts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 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. | |||||
| 16 | 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. | |||||
| 17 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Chetham's offers an unparalleled music and academic education to 330 of the finest young musicians from the UK and across the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established over 35 years ago, Performers College is a specialist higher education institution dedicated to nurturing the next generation of performing arts professionals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are one of the UK’s best-known performing arts trainers, with close to 50 franchises throughout Britain offering part-time drama, dance and singing instruction to thousands of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 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. | |||||
| 21 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Always Aiming for Excellence.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 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. | |||||
| 23 | 65 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A centre of international excellence in dance education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Orpheus Centre is an independent specialist college in Surrey.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Purcell School is the UK’s oldest specialist music school.” 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: arts 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 arts schools.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of arts schools, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name arts 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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Arts 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 606 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 arts 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 “arts 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 arts 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 arts 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, 3,211 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 arts 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 arts schools are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 606 arts 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?
Arts University Bournemouth, headquartered in Poole, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most arts schools?
London leads with 119 headquartered companies, followed by Liverpool (15) and Manchester (13).
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 3,211 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 606 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.