Plymouth College of Art
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8AT

Dedicated Art College

Plymouth Art College is one of only four remaining independent colleges of art and design in the UK with a history dating back 153 years. Art students at Plymouth College of Art should find creative education supported by good technical and studio resources, and mentoring by college staff who are passionate about teaching and provide unrivalled specialist expertise across the Fine Arts, the Applied Arts, Design and Media.

Dartington College of Arts
Dartington Hall
Totnes
Devon
TQ9

Dartington College of Arts is a specialist arts institution near Totnes, Devon. It specialises in post-dramatic theatre, music, performance writing and visual performance, focusing on a performative and multi-disciplinary approach to the arts. In addition to this, lecturing staff are all in some way active arts practitioners. The college has an international reputation for excellence, and aims to promote a critical self awareness in contemporary arts practice, and as such is firmly entrenched in post-modernism.

The art college was founded in 1961. Academic degrees are validated in partnership with the University of Plymouth. University College Falmouth merged with Dartington College of Arts in 2008

University of Southampton - Winchester School of Art
Park Avenue
Winchester
Hampshire
SO23 8DL

University with Art School

Originally founded more than 130 years ago, Winchester School of Art joined the University of Southampton in 1996. The art school aims to offer some of the most flexible and dynamic programmes in the UK. The range of art undergraduate and postgraduate opportunities span the spectrum of painting, sculpture, fashion, graphic design, advertising design, photography & design.

Winchester School of Art offers access to help and support. Teaching methods are studio-based and theoretical practice. The broad range of programmes - including lectures, seminars, workshop sessions, work placements and guest speakers - offers considerable flexibility

Loughborough School of Art and Design
Epinal Way
Loughborough
Leicestershire
LE11 3TU

University with Art School

The School of Art and Design at Loughborough University provides art courses ranging from Foundation course to undergraduate BA (Hons) programmes in art and design plus MA by individual project. As a full-service art and design department within a well-established campus University, the art school is able to offer a range of programmes and facilities to art students.

Art courses are designed to enable individual skills as an artist/designer in a challenging atmosphere of contemporary practice, critical debate and professional dialogue. Each programme is aimed at bringing technical expertise together with critical and conceptual content so that art student-practitioners develop their own work within each chosen field. The School of Art and Design has been rated amongst the top five University art and design providers in national surveys

Camberwell College of Art - University of the Arts London
65 Davies Street
London
W1K 5DA

Dedicated Art College

Camberwell Art College is one of the leading art and design institutions and have been welcoming art students to South London for over a century

Camberwell has a name for high quality teaching by leading practitioners - teaching that has put artists and designers on the road to international prominence and many others on the path to fulfillment in their chosen practice.

Red Rag British artist Richard Dack is a past art student of Camberwell Art College

Central Saint Martins College of Art
Southampton Row
London
London
WC1B 4AP

Dedicated Art College

Central Saint Martinsdescribes itself as the complete arts College providing unrivalled opportunities to enable art students to realise their potential and make a significant contribution to the 21st century. The art college was formed in 1989 from the merger of the Central School of Arts and Crafts (founded 1896) and St Martin's School of Art (founded 1854).

Chelsea College of Art and Design
16 John Islip Street
London
London
SW1P 4JU

Dedicated Art College

Chelsea College of Art and Design is described as based at the heart of the cultural and creative capital of the world, the natural home for modern and pioneering art and design education. The art college Millbank campus is situated just a few steps from Tate Britain and overlooking the flow of the Thames alongside. Chelsea is somewhere that aspires to consistently challenge, inspire, surprise and stimulate art students

Chelsea art college also works closely with two other art colleges within University of the Arts London: Camberwell College of Arts and Wimbledon College of Art. The aim is to develop a provision across the three British art colleges with the aim of delivering an art and design educational programme for students that is second to none

Goldsmiths, University of London
Lewisham Way New Cross
London
London
SE14 6NW

Dedicated Art College

Goldsmith art college states that they look at subjects in creative and unconventional ways, but everything they do is based on the highest academic standards of teaching and research.

A high proportion of Goldsmith art students are from international backgrounds which students helps create a diverse student population. The list of former art students includes Antony Gormley, Julian Clary, Damien Hirst, Mary Quant, Bridget Riley, Sam Taylor-Wood, Graham Coxon and Malcolm McLaren

Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore
London
London
SW7 2EU

Dedicated Art College

The Royal College of Art is located in the heart of London. Art courses are taught by internationally renowned artists, practitioners and theorists

The art college has access to state-of-the-art facilities and research resources, contributing to an outstanding creative and intellectual environment. As well as welcoming art students from around the world, the College's global dimension is enhanced through partnerships with leading art and design, cultural and educational institutions and though extensive links with business, both nationally and internationally

The art college claims that it is the only wholly postgraduate university of art and design in the world ' where students and staff study and practice art in a design environment, and design in an art environment. Their Royal Charter, granted in 1967, specifies that the purpose of the College is "to advance learning, knowledge and professional competence particularly in the field of fine arts'¦through teaching, research and collaboration with industry and commerce"

British artists Fred Cuming and Ken Howard are past art students of the Royal College of Art

Slade School of Fine Art - University College London
Gower Street
London
London
WC1E 6BT

Dedicated Art College

The Slade School of Fine Art is concerned with contemporary art and the practice, history and theories that inform it. It approaches the study and practice of art in an enquiring, investigative, experimental and research-minded way. Slade facilities and infrastructure for research support the discourse around painting, sculpture and fine art media.

In the recent 2008 RAE, 70% of the department's research activity was recognised as being in the top two categories of 4* ('world leading') or 3* ('internationally excellent'). This result confirms that the Slade is one of England's leading university departments for research in Fine Art.

Norwich University College of the Arts
Francis House 3-7 Redwell Street
Norwich
Norfolk
NR2 4SN

Dedicated Art College

Although its history can be traced back to 1845, the name Norwich University College of the Arts came into existence in 2008. Today the Arts College has almost 1,500 art students, studying a wide range of arts, design and media disciplines at Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Doctoral level.

The art college is based in a campus in the heart of Norwich in a range of buildings ranging from medieval to modern. Research degrees are offered in partnership with the University of the Arts, London

Oxford Brookes University
Gipsy Lane Campus
Oxford
Oxfordshire
OX3 0PB

University with Art School

The university can trace its history back to 1865 with the foundation of the Oxford School of Art.In 1992 it was renamed after John Henry Brooks the first Principle of the Schools of Technology, Art and Commerce

Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
Gosta Green Corporation Street
Birmingham
West-Midlands
B4 7DX

Dedicated Art College

University of Wolverhampton - School of Art & Design
City Campus - North Molineux Street
Wolverhampton
West-Midlands
WV1 1DT

University with Art School

The School of Art & Design at Wolverhampton towers over the heart of the city, a funky, flashing, neon installation on its concrete and glass west face making it a landmark building.

A recent multi-million pound re-fit means it's now also a beacon for some of the best art facilities in the country.