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Top 25 Theater schools worldwide
RevenueBase identified 4,241 theater schools worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 54,528 professional contacts across them, including 13,718 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers theater 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 22, 2026. Country and city lists for theater 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 theater 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,169 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,015 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1905, The Juilliard School is a world leader in performing arts education.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 932 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 596 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The official UNCSA Instagram.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 527 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 502 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 430 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is Australia’s leading institution for education and training in theatre, film and television.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 389 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 389 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Formation de l'acteur et de l'actrice à Paris, Bruxelles, Montpellier et Bordeaux.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 367 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LAMDA - Training Exceptional Artists LAMDA is the oldest drama school in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 364 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded on August 17, 1965, Tisch is a training ground for artists, scholars of the arts, and filmmakers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 295 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Guthrie Theater was founded by Sir Tyrone Guthrie in 1963 and is dedicated to producing the great works of dramatic literature, developing the work of contemporary playwrights…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 277 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Studying at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague means studying at the oldest conservatoire in The Netherlands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 270 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1968, Alliance Theatre is the leading producing theater in the Southeast, reaching more than patrons annually.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 254 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 254 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Five Towns College is a creative learning community that develops in students the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to pursue careers in the performing arts, media and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 246 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where we invite you to explore and expand the power and potential of film, television and new media.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 240 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Australian College of the Arts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 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: theater 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 theater schools.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of theater schools, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name theater 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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Theater schools worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 22, 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 theater 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 theater schools are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “theater 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 theater 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 theater 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, 13,718 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 22, 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.
Theater schools by location
13 lists · largest firstEvery Theater schools list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Theater schools based in the United States1,298
- Theater schools based in the United Kingdom402
- Theater schools based in France253
- Theater schools based in Germany173
- Theater schools based in India165
- Theater schools based in Spain154
- Theater schools based in Italy145
- Theater schools based in Canada124
- Theater schools based in the Netherlands124
- Theater schools based in Australia110
- Theater schools based in Belgium52
- Theater schools based in Sweden28
- Theater schools based in Switzerland27
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 theater 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 theater schools are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 4,241 theater 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 theater schools?
The United States leads with 1,298 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (402) and France (253). Every theater schools list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most theater schools?
New York leads with 99 headquartered companies, followed by London (97) and Los Angeles (71).
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 13,718 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 4,241 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 22, 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.