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Top 25 Arts schools based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 2,090 arts schools headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 41,586 professional contacts across them, including 14,351 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers arts schools headquartered in the United States, 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 arts schools based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,987 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Oberlin's college-conservatory synergy inspires profound connections between intellectual and artistic exploration, theory and practice, creative freedom and professional…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,956 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Emerson College is internationally recognized as the nation’s premier institution of higher learning devoted to communication and the arts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,497 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Hedges Fine and Performing Arts School” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,415 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University is committed to the education of cultural leaders who will engage and inspire audiences through performance…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,169 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The New York Film Academy is considered the best hands-on visual & performing arts college in the world and offers a range of programs, including Filmmaking, Acting for Film…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,015 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1905, The Juilliard School is a world leader in performing arts education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 984 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Musicians Institute is dedicated to inspiring artistic and academic excellence while preparing students for careers in the music and entertainment industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 964 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CCS is one of the nation's leading private colleges offering Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts, and Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in multiple programs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 932 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 608 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “See available positions: http://careers.interlochen.org/employment-opportunities A global destination for artists and arts enthusiasts, Interlochen Center for the Arts comprises…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 596 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The official UNCSA Instagram.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 527 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Recognized as one of America’s premier institutions for the performing arts, AMDA is the only performing arts college to offer Bachelor of Fine Arts and Conservatory Programs with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 519 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded as a community music school by Janet Daniels Schenck in 1918, today MSM is recognized for its more than superbly talented undergraduate and graduate students who come from…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 502 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The University of the Arts brings together visual artists, designers, actors, dancers, musicians, multimedia artists, filmmakers, writers and more, and acts as a catalyst for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 375 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1857 as the first conservatory in the United States, the Peabody Institute has remained a leader at the intersection of art and education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 364 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Boston Conservatory at Berklee provides a progressive learning environment where students are challenged to realize their potential as artists and inspired to pursue their dreams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 364 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded on August 17, 1965, Tisch is a training ground for artists, scholars of the arts, and filmmakers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 331 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Established in 1987, Orange County School of the Arts (OCSA) is a seventh through 12th grade, tuition free, donation-dependent, public charter school offering a rigorous academic…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 309 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “As America's National Park for the Performing Arts, Wolf Trap plays a valuable leadership role in both the local and national performing arts communities.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 297 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts is a leader in the field of arts and design schools, with a distinguished faculty of professional artists in 16 departments…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 284 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design is dedicated to the experiential education of students in the areas of design, media, entertainment…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 277 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The San Francisco Conservatory of Music is committed to providing an education that transforms our students artistically, intellectually, professionally and individually.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 269 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School is committed to a rigorous and comprehensive college preparatory curriculum with a serious emphasis on art, music and drama.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 259 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Eastman School of Music was founded in 1921 by industrialist and philanthropist George Eastman (1854-1932), founder of Eastman Kodak Company.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 254 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The mission of Cornish College of the Arts is to provide students aspiring to become practicing artists with an educational program of the highest possible quality, in an…” 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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Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 2,090 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 States 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 States 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, 14,351 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 States?
RevenueBase identified 2,090 arts schools headquartered in the United States 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?
Oberlin College, headquartered in Oberlin, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most arts schools?
New York leads with 111 headquartered companies, followed by Chicago (44) and Los Angeles (37).
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 14,351 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,090 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.