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Top 25 Arts schools worldwide
RevenueBase identified 6,550 arts schools worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 97,349 professional contacts across them, including 26,032 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers arts schools 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 arts schools 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 arts schools worldwide
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 | 1,370 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “En la Escuela Universitaria de Artes TAI formamos a creadores y artistas del futuro.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 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. | |||||
| 8 | 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. | |||||
| 9 | 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. | |||||
| 10 | 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. | |||||
| 11 | 932 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 874 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University has a long history dating back to 1882, first starting as an Academy and finally gaining its status as a university in 1984.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 816 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Die ZHdK ist eine lokal verankerte, international ausgerichtete Kunsthochschule mit breit gefächertem Aus- und Weiterbildungsangebot in den Bereichen Art Education, Design, Film…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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. | |||||
| 15 | 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. | |||||
| 16 | 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. | |||||
| 17 | 596 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The official UNCSA Instagram.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 584 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Berlin University of the Arts is one of the biggest, most diversified and traditional universities of the arts world-wide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 558 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Conservatorium van Amsterdam, the Netherlands Film Academy, the Academy of Theatre and Dance, the Reinwardt Academy, the Academy of Architecture and the Breitner Academy…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 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. | |||||
| 21 | 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. | |||||
| 22 | 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. | |||||
| 23 | 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. | |||||
| 24 | 484 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Música Creativa es uno de los referentes en el ámbito de la enseñanza musical en nuestro país.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 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. | |||||
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 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 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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for arts schools are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide 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.
- 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, 26,032 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.
Arts schools by location
21 lists · largest firstEvery Arts schools list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Arts schools based in the United States2,090
- Arts schools based in the United Kingdom606
- Arts schools based in Germany299
- Arts schools based in France241
- Arts schools based in Australia230
- Arts schools based in Canada229
- Arts schools based in Italy208
- Arts schools based in Spain208
- Arts schools based in India192
- Arts schools based in Brazil168
- Arts schools based in the Netherlands145
- Arts schools based in Belgium104
- Arts schools based in Portugal66
- Arts schools based in Switzerland54
- Arts schools based in Denmark50
- Arts schools based in Sweden40
- Arts schools based in Austria36
- Arts schools based in New Zealand28
Cities
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 worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 6,550 arts schools 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?
Oberlin College, headquartered in Oberlin, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most arts schools?
The United States leads with 2,090 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (606) and Germany (299). Every arts schools list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most arts schools?
London leads with 121 headquartered companies, followed by New York (111) and Madrid (59).
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 26,032 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 6,550 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.