This is a list of fine art universities and colleges in Europe, containing academic

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higher Higher may refer to: Music * The Higher, a 2002–2012 American pop rock band Albums * ''Higher'' (Ala Boratyn album) or the title song, 2007 * ''Higher'' (Ezio album) or the title song, 2000 * ''Higher'' (Harem Scarem album) or the title song ...

( tertiary) undergraduate education,

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and research, offering

academic degree An academic degree is a qualification awarded to students upon successful completion of a course of study in higher education, usually at a college or university. These institutions commonly offer degrees at various levels, usually including unde ...

s of fine art (such as

Bachelor of Fine Arts A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a standard undergraduate degree for students for pursuing a professional education in the visual, fine or performing arts. It is also called Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA) in some cases. Background The Bachelor ...

Master of Fine Arts A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.) is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admini ...

, and equivalent). The list makes no distinction between public or private institutions, or by institutions that focus solely on fine art or as part of a wider range of related or non-related subjects. However, it does exclude 1) institutions below higher ( tertiary) education, and 2) academic institutions that focus solely on arts in the definition of design, and applied arts, etc.

Austria

* Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, 1692
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* University of Art and Design Linz, Linz, 1947
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* University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, 1867
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Belgium

Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp) The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp ( nl, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Antwerpen) is an art academy located in Antwerp, Belgium. It is one of the oldest of its kind in Europe. It was founded in 1663 by David Teniers the Younger, ...

Antwerp Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504,

, 1663
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* Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1711 *

Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Ghent) The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent ( nl, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Gent, KASK) is an art school that is one of the oldest art schools in Belgium. It is now part of the Hogeschool Gent. History The Academy was founded in 174 ...

, Ghent, 1741
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*

LUCA School of Arts Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussel, based in the Schaerbeek municipality of Brussels, Belgium, is an independent flemish art school. It is a predominantly Dutch-speaking institution located on the Paleizenstraat/Rue de Palais, and at another site, with ...

, Brussels, 1880 * Institut Saint-Luc, Brussels, 1882 * La Cambre, Brussels, 1926

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo The Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo () is a faculty within the University of Sarajevo in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, dedicated to the performing arts. History The Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo was officially opened in 1981 w ...

, Sarajevo, 1981

Bulgaria

National Academy of Arts The National Academy of Arts ( bg, Национална художествена академия) is an institution of higher education in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is the oldest and most renowned school of arts in the country. History The National ...

, Sofia, 1896

Croatia

* Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, 1907

Cyprus

Cyprus College of Art The Cyprus College of Art (CyCA) is an artists' studio group, located in the village of Lempa, Cyprus, Lempa on the west coast of Cyprus. It was founded in 1969 by the artist Stass Paraskos; the current director is the Cyprus-based artist Margaret ...

, Larnaca, 1969

Czech Republic

* Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Prague, 1799
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* Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Prague, 1885
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*

Prague City University Prague City University is an English-language private university in the Vinohrady district of Prague, Czech Republic, founded in 2004. Formerly known as Prague College, the university adopted its current name in 2021. The university has two cam ...

, Prague, 2004 *

Faculty of Fine Arts In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork ...

Brno Brno ( , ; german: Brünn ) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 380,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic ...

, 1993
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Denmark

* Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 1754 *

Funen Art Academy Funen Art Academy ( da, Det Fynske Kunstakademi) is an independent, nationally recognized educational institution located in central Odense, Denmark offering a 5-year programme in contemporary visual arts. The academy is funded jointly by the Danis ...

, Odense, 1944 *

Jutland Art Academy Jutland Art Academy ( da, Det Jyske Kunstakademi, abbreviated DJK), is a state recognized institute for higher education in Aarhus, Denmark, offering a 5-year programme in contemporary art. The academy has no departments and focuses on conceptuall ...

, Århus, 1959 *The Classical Drawing School,

Glyptoteket The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek ("ny" means "new" in Danish; "Glyptotek" comes from the Greek root ''glyphein'', to carve, and ''theke'', storing place), commonly known simply as Glyptoteket, is an art museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. The collection ...

Estonia

* Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, 1914 * Tartu Art College, Karlova, 2000

Finland

* University of the Arts Helsinki, Helsinki, 2013

France

* École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1682 * École nationale supérieure d'art de Nancy, Nancy, 1702 * Institut supérieur des arts de Toulouse, Toulouse, (1746?) *

ESAD de Reims The École Supérieure d'Art et de Design de Reims is a college of art and design in Reims, France. History The school of fine arts was founded in 1748 by Reims local government. Its founder, Louis-Jean Lévesque de Pouilly, sought to attract a ...

Reims Reims ( , , ; also spelled Rheims in English) is the most populous city in the French department of Marne, and the 12th most populous city in France. The city lies northeast of Paris on the Vesle river, a tributary of the Aisne. Founded by ...

, 1748 * École supérieure d'art et de design Marseille-Méditerranée, Marseille, 1752 * École supérieure des beaux-arts de Tours, Tours, 1760 *

École supérieure d'art de Grenoble École supérieure d'Art de Grenoble is a school of Fine Arts in Grenoble, France. Notable graduates * Samuel Rousseau (artist), Samuel Rousseau * Matthieu Laurette * Barthélémy Toguo * Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster *Véronique Joumard * Philip ...

, Grenoble, 1762 * École supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence,

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...

, 1765 * École nationale supérieure d'art de Dijon, Dijon, 1765 *

École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs The École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ÉnsAD, also known as Arts Decos', École des Arts Décoratifs) is a public grande école of art and design of PSL Research University. The school is located in the Rue d'Ulm in Paris. Profil ...

, Paris, 1766 * École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon, Lyon, 1756 * École supérieure des beaux-arts de Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole,

Montpellier Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of ...

, (1779?) * École supérieure d'art et de design d'Orléans, Orléans, 1787 * École régionale des beaux-arts de Rennes,

Rennes Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...

, 1795 * École supérieure d'art d'Avignon,

Avignon Avignon (, ; ; oc, Avinhon, label=Provençal dialect, Provençal or , ; la, Avenio) is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Vaucluse Departments of France, department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region of So ...

, 1801 *

Haute École des arts du Rhin Haute may refer to: People * Nicholas Haute (1357 – c.1415), English knight, landowner and politician ** William Haute (MP) (1390-1462), son of Nicholas, Member of Parliament, English politician ** William Hawte or Haute (c. 1430 - 1497), son o ...

Strasbourg Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...

, (1821?) *

École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art The École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art, also called the École des Arts Appliqués or Olivier de Serres and abbreviated to ENSAAMA, is a post- baccalauréat teaching establishment for the decorative arts in the 1 ...

, Paris, 1856 * Villa Arson, Nice, 1881 *

École Boulle The École Boulle is a college of fine arts and crafts and applied arts in Paris, France. History The École Boulle was founded in 1886 and is named after the cabinetmaker André-Charles Boulle, who is generally considered to be the preeminent a ...

, Paris, 1886 * École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, 1889 * École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nantes Métropole,

Nantes Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...

, 1904 *

École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy The École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris Cergy is a National public school of art and design established in Cergy-Pontoise. It is one of the 5 National Art school in France, run by the French Ministry of Culture (France). Recognized as F ...

(ENSAPC), 1975 * Paris College of Art, Paris, 1981
PCA website
*

Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques An institute is an organisational body created for a certain purpose. They are often research organisations ( research institutes) created to do research on specific topics, or can also be a professional body. In some countries, institutes ca ...

, Paris, 1985 *

Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art (PASCA) was an art school in Pont Aven France, founded in 1993 by art historian Caroline Boyle-Turner as an international fine arts program for advanced under-graduate and post-graduate studies. It was a priva ...

, Pont-Aven, 1993 * European Academy of Art in Brittany ( European University of Brittany),

, 2010 * Parsons Paris (2013) (

Parsons School of Design Parsons School of Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is a private art and design college located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhatt ...

), Paris, 2013
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Germany

Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg The Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg) was founded in 1662 by Jacob von Sandrart and is the oldest art academy in German-speaking Central Europe. The art academy is situated in Nuremberg. Classes ...

, Nuremberg, 1662
Akademie website
* Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin, 1696
UDK website
* Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design,

Halle (Saale) Halle (Saale), or simply Halle (; from the 15th to the 17th century: ''Hall in Sachsen''; until the beginning of the 20th century: ''Halle an der Saale'' ; from 1965 to 1995: ''Halle/Saale'') is the largest city of the Germany, German States of ...

, 1915
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State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart The State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart (German: Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart) is a university in Stuttgart, Germany. Founded on 25 June 1761, and located since 1946 on the Weißenhof, the Academy, whose historical sig ...

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

, 1761
Akademie website
* Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 1773
Akademie website
* Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden, 1764 *

Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig The Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst (HGB) or Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig is one of the oldest art schools in Germany, dating back to 1764. The school has four colleges specializing in fine arts, graphic design, photography and new media a ...

, Leipzig, 1764 *

University of Fine Arts of Hamburg The ''Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg (HFBK Hamburg)'' is the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. It dates to 1767, when it was called the ''Hamburger Gewerbeschule''; later it became known as ''Landeskunstschule Hamburg''. The main build ...

, Hamburg, 1767 *

Kunsthochschule Kassel Kunsthochschule Kassel (German; "Kassel College of Art") is a college of fine arts in Kassel, Germany. Founded in 1777, it is a semi-autonomous department of the University of Kassel . Notable people * Daniel Stieglitz * Peter Angermann * Si ...

Kassel Kassel (; in Germany, spelled Cassel until 1926) is a city on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Regierungsbezirk Kassel and the district of the same name and had 201,048 inhabitants in December 2020 ...

, 1777 * Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Munich, 1808
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* Städelschule, Frankfurt, 1817 *

Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main The Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) Offenbach am Main (English: ''Offenbach am Main College of Design'') is a German art and design university located in Offenbach am Main, in the German state of Hesse. It was given university status in 1970, and ...

Offenbach am Main Offenbach am Main () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Hesse, Germany, on the left bank of the river Main (river), Main. It borders Frankfurt and is part of the Frankfurt urban area and the larger Frankfurt Rhein-Main Regional Aut ...

, 1832 * Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 1854 * Bauhaus University, Weimar, Weimar, 1860 * University of the Arts Bremen,

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

, 1873 *

Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, also known as Berlin-Weissensee Art Academy, School of Art and Design Berlin-Weissensee (german: Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee) is a non-profit, public art school in Berlin-Weißensee, Berlin, Germany ...

, Berlin, 1946 *

Braunschweig University of Art The Braunschweig University of Art (Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig, HBK) is the second largest College of Fine Arts in Germany. History The history goes back to the “Zeichnen-Instithut” (Drawing Institute) founded by the Brun ...

, Braunschweig, 1952

Greece

* Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, 1837 * Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 1925

Hungary

* Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, 1870 *

Hungarian University of Fine Arts The Hungarian University of Fine Arts ( Hungarian: ''Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem'', MKE) is the central Hungarian art school in Budapest, Andrássy Avenue. It was founded in 1871 as the Hungarian Royal Drawing School ''(Magyar Királyi Min ...

, Budapest, 1871

Iceland

Iceland Academy of the Arts History Iceland University of the Arts ( is, Listaháskóli Íslands ) is an Icelandic institution of higher art education, located in Reykjavík, which offers the only university-level degrees in the arts in Iceland.Lisa Z. ValdimarsdottirIcel ...

, Reykjavík, 1998

Ireland

* National College of Art and Design, Dublin, 1746
NCAD website
*

Limerick School of Art and Design The Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD; ga, Scoil Ealaíne Agus Deartha Luimnigh) is a constituent art college of the Technological University of the Shannon, located in Limerick, Ireland. The school operates on three of TUS: Midwest's ...

, Limerick, 185
Limerick School of Art website
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Crawford College of Art and Design Cork Institute of Technology (CIT; ga, Institiúid Teicneolaíochta Chorcaí) was an institute of technology, located in Cork, Ireland. Upon its dissolution, the institute had 17,000 students studying in art, business, engineering, music, dram ...

Cork Cork or CORK may refer to: Materials * Cork (material), an impermeable buoyant plant product ** Cork (plug), a cylindrical or conical object used to seal a container ***Wine cork Places Ireland * Cork (city) ** Metropolitan Cork, also known as G ...

, 1974
Crawford website
* Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, 1992
School of Art, Design & Printing website
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Burren College of Art Burren College of Art is an Irish non-profit independent art college specialising in undergraduate and graduate Fine Art education, located in Ballyvaughan, County Clare, Ireland. The Master of Fine Art programme is accredited by the University ...

, Galway, 1993
Burren College of Art website
* Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin, 1997

Italy

State academies of fine art

* Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Florence, 1563
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*

Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma The Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma is a public tertiary academy of art in Rome, Italy. It was founded in the sixteenth century, but the present institution dates from the time of the unification of Italy and the capture of Rome by the Kingdom ...

, Rome, latter part of the 16th century
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* Accademia di Belle Arti di Torino "Albertina", Turin, 1678 * Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia,

Venice Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 ...

, 1750
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*

Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli The Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli (Naples Academy of Fine Arts) is a university-level art school in Naples. In the past it has been known as the Reale Istituto di Belle Arti and the Reale Accademia di Belle Arti. Founded by King Charles VII ...

, Naples, 1752
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* Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano "Brera", Milan, 1776
website
* Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, Carrara, 1769 * Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo,

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, 1780 *

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna ("academy of fine arts of Bologna") is a public tertiary academy of fine art in Bologna, in Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy. It has a campus in Cesena. Giorgio Morandi taught engraving at the Accademia f ...

, Bologna, 1802
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*

Accademia di Belle Arti di Lecce Accademia (Italian for "academy") often refers to: * The Galleria dell'Accademia, an art museum in Florence * The Gallerie dell'Accademia, an art museum in Venice Accademia may also refer to: Academies of art * The Accademia Carrara di Belle ...

Lecce Lecce ( ); el, label=Griko, Luppìu, script=Latn; la, Lupiae; grc, Λουπίαι, translit=Loupíai), group=pron is a historic city of 95,766 inhabitants (2015) in southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Lecce, the province ...

, 1960 * Accademia di Belle Arti di Catania,

Catania Catania (, , Sicilian and ) is the second largest municipality in Sicily, after Palermo. Despite its reputation as the second city of the island, Catania is the largest Sicilian conurbation, among the largest in Italy, as evidenced also by ...

, 1967 *

Accademia di Belle Arti di Reggio Calabria The Accademia di belle arti is an academy of fine arts located in Reggio Calabria Reggio di Calabria ( scn, label= Southern Calabrian, Riggiu; el, label= Calabrian Greek, Ρήγι, Rìji), usually referred to as Reggio Calabria, or simply ...

Reggio Calabria Reggio di Calabria ( scn, label= Southern Calabrian, Riggiu; el, label= Calabrian Greek, Ρήγι, Rìji), usually referred to as Reggio Calabria, or simply Reggio by its inhabitants, is the largest city in Calabria. It has an estimated popul ...

, 1967 *

Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino The Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino is an academy of fine arts located in Urbino, Marche Marche ( , ) is one of the twenty regions of Italy. In English, the region is sometimes referred to as The Marches ( ). The region is located in t ...

, Urbino, 1967
website
* Accademia di Belle Arti di L'Aquila,

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, 1969 *

Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari The Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari (English, "Academy of Fine Arts of Bari") is a public tertiary academy of art in Bari, Apulia, Italy. Like other state art academies in Italy, the Accademia became an autonomous degree-awarding institution un ...

Bari Bari ( , ; nap, label= Barese, Bare ; lat, Barium) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia region, on the Adriatic Sea, southern Italy. It is the second most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy a ...

, 1970 *

Accademia di Belle Arti di Foggia The Accademia di Belle Arti di Foggia is an academy of fine arts located in Foggia Foggia (, , ; nap, label= Foggiano, Fògge ) is a city and former ''comune'' of Apulia, in Southern Italy, capital of the province of Foggia. In 2013, its popu ...

Foggia Foggia (, , ; nap, label= Foggiano, Fògge ) is a city and former ''comune'' of Apulia, in Southern Italy, capital of the province of Foggia. In 2013, its population was 153,143. Foggia is the main city of a plain called Tavoliere, also known ...

, 1970 * Accademia di Belle Arti di Catanzaro, Catanzaro, 1972 *

Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata The Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata is an academy of fine arts located in Macerata, Italy. It was founded in 1972. Initially, the Accademia was located in the Palazzo Buonaccorsi. After the Umbria and Marche earthquake of 1997, it was moved ...

, Macerata, 1972
website
* Accademia di Belle Arti di Frosinone, Frosinone, 1973 *

Accademia di Belle Arti di Sassari The Accademia di Belle Arti "Mario Sironi" di Sassari is an academy of fine arts located in Sassari, Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, ...

Sassari Sassari (, ; sdc, Sàssari ; sc, Tàtari, ) is an Italian city and the second-largest of Sardinia in terms of population with 127,525 inhabitants, and a Functional Urban Area of about 260,000 inhabitants. One of the oldest cities on the island, ...

, 1989

Other academies with state recognition

* Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia, Perugia, 1573 *

Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti di Genova The Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti is a tertiary academy of fine arts located in Genoa, Italy. It also houses a museum (Museo dell'Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti), which includes works of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Giuseppe Abbati, Anto ...

, Genoa, 1751 *

Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona The Academy of Fine Arts of Verona () is a post-secondary school for studies in the visual arts, founded in 1764. The Accademia Cignaroli is one of the oldest Art Academies in the world and it is listed as one of the five ''Accademie Storiche d'I ...

, Verona, 1764 *

Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo The Accademia Carrara, (), officially Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo, is an art gallery and an academy of fine arts in Bergamo, in Lombardy in northern Italy. The art gallery was established in about 1780 by , a Bergamasco collect ...

Bergamo Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ...

, 1796 * Accademia di Belle Arti di Ravenna, Ravenna, 1827
website
* Accademia di Belle Arti "Lorenzo da Viterbo", Viterbo, 1975
website
* Accademia di belle arti Michelangelo, Agrigento, 1979
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*

Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti The Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, "New Academy of Fine Arts", also known as NABA, is a private List of academies of fine art in Italy, academy of fine art in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It has approximately 3000 students, some of whom ...

, Milan, 1980 * Accademia di Belle Arti Aldo Galli di Como, Como, 1989
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* , Cuneo, 1992
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* ,

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, 1995
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* Accademia di Belle Arti di Sanremo, Sanremo, 1997
website
* Accademia di Belle Arti "Fidia" di Stefanaconi,

Stefanaconi Stefanaconi () ( grc, Στεφανικόνιον, translit=Stephanikónion) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Vibo Valentia in the Italian region Calabria, located about southwest of Catanzaro and about east of Vibo Valentia. As o ...

, 1997
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* Accademia di Belle Arti "Rome University of Fine Arts" di Roma, Rome, 1998
website
* Libera Accademia di Belle Arti LABA di Brescia, Brescia, 1999 * Accademia di Belle Arti Kandinskij di Trapani, Trapani, 1999
website
* , Brescia, 2002
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* Accademia di Belle Arti Abadir di San Martino delle Scale, San Martino delle Scale
website
* Accademia di Belle Arti Abadir di Sant'Agata li Battiati,

Sant'Agata li Battiati Sant'Agata li Battiati ( Sicilian: ''Sant'Àita li Vattiati'') is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Catania in the Italian region Sicily, located very near to Catania. Sant'Agata li Battiati borders the following municipal ...

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* , Milan
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* Accademia di Belle Arti Europea dei Media ACME di Novara, Novara
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* Accademia di Belle Arti I. Repin a Firenze, Firenze
website

Latvia

Art Academy of Latvia The Art Academy of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Mākslas akadēmija) is an institution of higher education and scientific research in art, located in Riga, Latvia. The neo-Gothic brick building is located on Krišjānis Valdemārs Street, next to t ...

Riga Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Ba ...

, 1921

Lithuania

Vilnius Academy of Art The Vilnius Academy of Arts ( lt, Vilniaus dailės akademija, previously ''State Art Institute of Lithuania'') in Vilnius, Lithuania, grants a variety of degrees in the arts. History The Academy traces its roots back to the creation of the Arc ...

, Vilnius, 1793

Netherlands

* Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, The Hague, 1682
KABK website
* Willem de Kooning Academy (including

Piet Zwart Institute The Piet Zwart Institute is a post-graduate institute for study and research in art, media and design based in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Named in memory of the Dutch designer Piet Zwart, it was inaugurated in 2001. The current postgraduate study p ...

), Rotterdam, 1773
Willem de Kooning website
* Academie Minerva,

Groningen Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...

, 1798
website
*AKV St.Joost, Breda, Den Bosch, 1812
website
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Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (State Academy of Fine Arts) was founded in 1870 in Amsterdam. It is a classical academy, a place where philosophers, academics and artists meet to test and exchange ideas and knowledge. The school supports ...

, Amsterdam, 1870
Rijksakademie website
*

Fontys School of the Fine and Performing Arts Fontys University of Applied Sciences is a Dutch university of applied sciences with over 44,000 students in several campuses located in the southern Netherlands. The three largest Fontys campuses are located in the cities of Eindhoven, Tilburg ...

, Tilburg, 1912

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Gerrit Rietveld Academie The Gerrit Rietveld Academie, also known as Rietveld School of Art & Design and Rietveld Academy, is an art academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The academy was founded in 1924 and offers programs in fine arts and design. History In 1924, the I ...

, Amsterdam, 1924
Gerrit Rielveld Academie website
* Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, 1948
Jan van Eyck Academie website
* Amsterdam University of the Arts, Amsterdam, 1987 * Maastricht Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht, 1993 * Frank Mohr Institute,

, 1996
FMI website
* Artez, Arnhem,

Enschede Enschede (; known as in the local Twents dialect) is a municipality and city in the eastern Netherlands in the province of Overijssel and in the Twente region. The eastern parts of the urban area reaches the border of the German city of Gronau ...

, and Zwolle, 2002
ArtEZ website
* Utrecht School of the Arts, Utrecht

Norway

Bergen Academy of Art and Design Bergen Academy of Art and Design ( no, Kunst- og designhøgskolen i Bergen) or KHiB was one of two independent and accredited scientific institutions of higher learning in the visual arts and design in Norway (The other is Oslo National Academy o ...

, Bergen, 1972/1909 *

Trondheim Academy of Fine Art Trondheim Academy of Fine Art is a department of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway responsible for Bachelor degree, Bachelor and Master degree, Master education within fine art. Located at a separate camp ...

, Trondheim, 1979 *

Oslo National Academy of the Arts The Oslo National Academy of the Arts ( no, Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo, ''KHiO'') is a university college in Oslo, Norway, that provides education in visual arts, design and performing arts. It is one of two public institutes of higher learning in ...

, Oslo, 1996 *

Tromsø Academy of fine Art Tromsø (, , ; se, Romsa ; fkv, Tromssa; sv, Tromsö) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the city of Tromsø. Tromsø lies in Northern Norway. The municipality is the 2 ...

, Tromsø, 1997

Poland

Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków ( pl, Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie, usually abbreviated to ''ASP''), is a public institution of higher education located in the centre of Kraków, Poland. It is the oldest Pol ...

, Kraków, 1818
website
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University of Fine Arts in Poznań Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts Poznan Poznań (in Polish: ''Uniwersytet Artystyczny im. Magdaleny Abakanowicz w Poznaniu'') is one of the major fine-art academies in Poland. It was founded in 1919 as the State School of Decorative ...

, Poznań, 1919 * Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Warsaw, 1932 *

Academy of Fine Arts In Łódź The Academy of Fine Art in Łódź is a public university in Łódź for artists. Created in 1945, it was one of seven academies of Fine Arts in Poland. The academy was renamed in honor of one of its founders, Władysław Strzemiński, in 1988. T ...

, Łódź, 1945

Portugal

* Colégio das Artes ( University of Coimbra), Coimbra, (1542?) * University of Porto, Porto, 1911
website
* University of Lisbon,

Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...

, 1911
website

Romania

George Enescu University of Arts of Iași The George Enescu National University of Arts ( ro, Universitatea Națională de Arte „George Enescu”) is a public university in Iași, Romania, founded in 1860. It was named in honor of the composer George Enescu. History The institution w ...

Iași Iași ( , , ; also known by other alternative names), also referred to mostly historically as Jassy ( , ), is the second largest city in Romania and the seat of Iași County. Located in the historical region of Moldavia, it has traditionally ...

, 1864 *

Bucharest National University of Arts The National University of Arts in Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea Naţională de Arte) is a university in Bucharest preparing students in fine arts. The National University of Arts is a higher education institution in Bucharest. History The Nat ...

, Bucharest, 1948 *

Art and Design University of Cluj-Napoca The Art and Design University ( ro, italic=yes, Universitatea de Artă şi Design, UAD;) is an art university located in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It was founded on November 15, 1925, as the ''Fine Arts School of Cluj''. Formerly known as Academy of ...

Cluj-Napoca ; hu, kincses város) , official_name=Cluj-Napoca , native_name= , image_skyline= , subdivision_type1 = Counties of Romania, County , subdivision_name1 = Cluj County , subdivision_type2 = Subdivisions of Romania, Status , subdivision_name2 ...

, 1925

Russia

* Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, 1757 *British Higher School of Art& Design, Moscow, 2015

Serbia

* University of Arts in Belgrade#Faculty of Fine Arts,

Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...

, 1937

Slovakia

Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava The Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava (AFAD; sk, Vysoká škola výtvarných umení v Bratislave, VŠVU) is an academy in Bratislava, Slovakia. It was founded in 1949 at the dawn of totalitarian regime in the former Czechoslovak Social ...

Bratislava Bratislava (, also ; ; german: Preßburg/Pressburg ; hu, Pozsony) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Slovakia. Officially, the population of the city is about 475,000; however, it is estimated to be more than 660,000 — approxim ...

, 194
VSVU website

Slovenia

Academy of Fine Arts and Design The Academy of Fine Arts and Design ( sl, Akademija za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje, also known by the acronym ALUO), is an art academy and institution based in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

( University of Ljubljana), Ljubljana, (1919?)

Spain

* Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, 1744 * Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de Valencia, Valencia, 1768 *

Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi The Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi (, in English "Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of Saint George") is a Catalan art school located in Barcelona. The president is the architect Jordi Bonet i Armengol. The institution was ...

, Barcelona, 1775

Sweden

Royal Institute of Art The Royal Institute of Art ( sv, Kungliga Konsthögskolan) is an institution in Stockholm, Sweden for higher education in art,Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

, 1735
http://www.kkh.se/en
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University College of Arts, Crafts and Design Konstfack, or University of Arts, Crafts and Design, is a university college for higher education in the area of art, crafts and design in Stockholm, Sweden. History Konstfack has had several different names since it was founded in 1844 by the ...

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

, 1844
https://www.konstfack.se/en
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Valand Academy Valand Academy ( sv, Akademin Valand) is a school for film, photography, literary composition, and fine art at the University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden. It was formed in 2012 through the merger of three formerly independent schools/de ...

Gothenburg Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has ...

, 1865
http://akademinvaland.gu.se/english
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Malmö Art Academy Malmö Art Academy is an art school as part of Lund University , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , bud ...

, Malmö, 1965
http://www.khm.lu.se/en
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Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå The Academy of Fine Arts at Umeå University is a Swedish art school. It was founded in 1987 in a former factory by the river of Uman. Every year 12 new students are accepted to the school, and a total of 60 students currently study at the acad ...

, Umeå, 1987
http://www.art.umu.se/en

Switzerland

* École cantonale d'art de Lausanne, Lausanne, 1821 * Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, 1878/2007

United Kingdom

England

Royal Academy of Arts The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpo ...

, London, 1768
Royal Academy website
* Royal College of Art, London, 1837
RCA website
* Manchester School of Art, Manchester, 1838 * Leeds Arts University, Leeds 1846 * Hereford College of Arts,

West Midlands West or Occident is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets on the Earth. Etymology The word "west" is a Germanic word passed into some ...

, 1851 *

Bath School of Art and Design Bath School of Art and Design is an art college in Bath, England, now known separately as Bath School of Art and Bath School of Design. It forms part of the Bath Spa University whose main campus is located a few miles from the City at Newton Pa ...

Bath Bath may refer to: * Bathing, immersion in a fluid ** Bathtub, a large open container for water, in which a person may wash their body ** Public bathing, a public place where people bathe * Thermae, ancient Roman public bathing facilities Plac ...

, 1852 * Central Saint Martins (

University of the Arts London University of the Arts London is a collegiate university in London, England, specialising in arts, design, fashion and the performing arts. It is a federation of six arts colleges: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea Coll ...

), London, 1854
St Martins College website
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City and Guilds of London Art School Founded in 1854 as the Lambeth School of Art, the City and Guilds of London Art School is a small specialist art college located in central London, England. Originally founded as a government art school, it is now an independent, not-for-profit ...

, London, 1854 *

Arts University Plymouth Arts University Plymouth is an independent university-sector Higher Education (HE) provider located in Plymouth in South West England. The former Plymouth College of Art was officially granted university status in 2022. In April 2019 the sp ...

Plymouth Plymouth () is a port city and unitary authority in South West England. It is located on the south coast of Devon, approximately south-west of Exeter and south-west of London. It is bordered by Cornwall to the west and south-west. Plymouth ...

, 1856 *

Slade School of Art The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as ...

, London, 1871
Slade website
* Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art ( University of Oxford), Oxford, 1871 * Arts University Bournemouth,

Poole Poole () is a large coastal town and seaport in Dorset, on the south coast of England. The town is east of Dorchester and adjoins Bournemouth to the east. Since 1 April 2019, the local authority is Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Counc ...

, 1880
The Arts Institute at Bournemouth website
* Wimbledon College of Art (

), London, 1890
Wimbledon College website
* Goldsmiths College, London, 1891
Goldsmiths website
* London College of Communication (

), London, 1894
LCC website
* Camberwell College of Arts (

), London, 1898
Camberwell College website
* Falmouth University, Falmouth, Cornwall, 1902 * University of Leeds, Leeds, 1904 * Chelsea College of Arts (

), London, 1908
Chelsea College website
* Liverpool College of Art, Liverpool, 1910

Northern Ireland

* Belfast School of Art, Belfast, 1849

Scotland

* Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, 1760
ECA website
* Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, 1845
GSA website
* Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, 1885 * Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design,

Dundee Dundee (; sco, Dundee; gd, Dùn Dè or ) is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom. The mid-year population estimate for 2016 was , giving Dundee a population density of 2,478/km2 or ...

, 1888
DJCAD website
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Leith School of Art Leith School of Art (LSA) is an independent art college in Edinburgh, Scotland, providing tertiary education in art and design. LSA is located in the Leith area of Edinburgh, in the converted former Norwegian Seamen's Church, originally built by ...

, Edinburgh, 1987

Wales

Cardiff School of Art & Design Cardiff School of Art & Design (CSAD) is one of the five schools that comprise Cardiff Metropolitan University. It originated as the Cardiff School of Art in 1865. History Cardiff School of Art & Design opened in 1865 as the Cardiff School of S ...

, Cardiff, 1865 * Royal Cambrian Academy of Art, Conwy, 1881

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