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Top 25 Art colleges worldwide
RevenueBase identified 2,003 art colleges worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 181,425 professional contacts across them, including 39,004 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Paris the largest hub.
This list covers art colleges worldwide, 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. Country and city lists for art colleges follow the table.
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 worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 35,601 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht, afdeling Kunst en Economie, richting Visual Arts & Design management en eigen specialisatie Architectuur.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 15,842 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “School of Visual Arts has been a leader in the education of artists, designers, and creative professionals for more than seven decades.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 4,593 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Fashion Institute of Technology is New York City’s internationally recognized college for design, fashion, art, communications, and business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 4,566 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Offering more degree programs and specializations than any other art and design university, SCAD is uniquely qualified to prepare talented students for professional, creative…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 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. | |||||
| 6 | 2,813 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Pratt Institute provides the creative leaders of tomorrow the knowledge and experience to make a better world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 2,400 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “RISD is a college and museum founded in Providence, RI in 1877, where making starts with a question, creativity sparks progress and challenging the status quo is the norm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 2,214 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Creative Careers Start Here.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 2,074 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 1929 by Sunset Magazine's creative director, Richard S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 1,995 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The New School's Parsons School of Design is one of the world's leading art and design schools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,987 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 12 | 1,956 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 13 | 1,712 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For more than 150 years, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) has been a leader in educating the world’s most influential artists, designers and scholars.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,426 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A global leader in art and design education, ArtCenter’s rigorous and immersive curriculum provides unparalleled access to creative influencers and industry professionals to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,415 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 16 | 1,200 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 17 | 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. | |||||
| 18 | 1,197 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Canada's Top Art & Design University.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,169 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 20 | 1,164 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1980, NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, with campus in Milan and in Rome, is the largest art academy in Italy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 1,123 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1907, California College of the Arts (CCA) educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 1,091 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Desde 1947, a FAAP é reconhecida internacionalmente como um monumento à cultura e à educação.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 1,055 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ArtEZ University of the Arts is de thuisbasis voor een diverse, internationale gemeenschap van studenten, docenten en onderzoekers die bij ons de ruimte vinden voor artistieke…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 993 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1826-the oldest continuously degree-granting college of art in the nation, MICA has become the leader in the education of artists and designers by fostering a community…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 964 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
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 worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for art colleges are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide 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.
- 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, 39,004 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 colleges by location
9 lists · largest firstEvery Art colleges list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Art colleges based in the United States340
- Art colleges based in India202
- Art colleges based in France117
- Art colleges based in Spain101
- Art colleges based in Italy99
- Art colleges based in Germany92
- Art colleges based in Canada62
- Art colleges based in the United Kingdom54
- Art colleges based in Belgium33
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 worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 2,003 art colleges worldwide 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?
Student, headquartered in Worldwide, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most art colleges?
The United States leads with 340 companies, followed by India (202) and France (117). Every art colleges list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most art colleges?
Paris leads with 32 headquartered companies, followed by New York (26) and London (20).
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 39,004 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 2,003 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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About this data
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.