This is a list of fine art universities and colleges in Europe, containing academic institutions of higher (tertiary) undergraduate education, postgraduate education and research, offering academic degrees of fine art (such as Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts, 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 - website University of Art and Design Linz, Linz, 1947 - website University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, 1867 - website
Belgium Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp), Antwerp, 1663 - website Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1711 Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Ghent), Ghent, 1741 - website LUCA School of Arts, Brussels, 1880 Institut Saint-Luc, Brussels, 1882 La Cambre, Brussels, 1926
Bosnia and Herzegovina Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, Sarajevo, 1981
Bulgaria European Academy of Fine Arts, Sofia.2019 *National Academy of Art, Sofia, 1896
Croatia Academy of Fine Arts, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, 1907
Cyprus Cyprus College of Art, Larnaca, 1969
Czech Republic Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Prague, 1799 - website Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague, Prague, 1885 - website Prague City University, Prague, 2004 - Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Prague, 1945- website Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno, 1993 - website Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Brno, 1947- website Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art, University of West Bohemia, Plzeň, 2013 - website Faculty of Art and Design, Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Ústí nad Labem, 2000 - website Faculty of Arts and Architecture, Technical University of Liberec, Liberec, 1994- website Prague School of Creative Communication, Prague, 2016 - website
Denmark Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, 1754 Funen Art Academy, Odense, 1944 Jutland Art Academy, Århus, 1959 The Classical Drawing School, Glyptoteket
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, Reims, 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, Grenoble, 1762 École supérieure d'art d'Aix-en-Provence, Aix-en-Provence, 1765 École nationale supérieure d'art de Dijon, Dijon, 1765 École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs, Paris, 1766 École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon, Lyon, 1756 École supérieure des beaux-arts de Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole, Montpellier, (1779?) École supérieure d'art et de design d'Orléans, Orléans, 1787 École régionale des beaux-arts de Rennes, Rennes, 1795 École supérieure d'art d'Avignon, Avignon, 1801 Haute École des arts du Rhin, Strasbourg, (1821?) École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art, Paris, 1856 Villa Arson, Nice, 1881 École Boulle, Paris, 1886 École des beaux-arts de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, 1889 École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nantes Métropole, Nantes, 1904 École nationale supérieure d'arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC), 1975 Paris College of Art, Paris, 1981 - PCA website Institut des Hautes Études en Arts Plastiques, Paris, 1985 Pont Aven School of Contemporary Art, Pont-Aven, 1993 - permanently closed European Academy of Art in Brittany (European University of Brittany), Rennes, 2010 Parsons Paris (2013) (Parsons School of Design), Paris, 2013- website Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle (ESRA Paris, Nice, Rennes), 1972 website
Germany Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, Nuremberg, 1662 - Akademie website Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin, 1696 - UDK website Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle (Saale), 1915 - University website State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 1761 - Akademie website Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, 1773 - Akademie website Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden, 1764 Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Leipzig, 1764 University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, Hamburg, 1767 Kunsthochschule Kassel, Kassel, 1777 Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Munich, 1808 - Akademie website Städelschule, Frankfurt, 1817 Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, Offenbach am Main, 1832 Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 1854 Bauhaus University, Weimar, Weimar, 1860 University of the Arts Bremen, Bremen, 1873 Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, Berlin, 1946 Braunschweig University of Art, 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 - website Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest, 1871 - website
Iceland Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavík, 1998
Ireland National College of Art and Design, Dublin, 1746 - NCAD website Limerick School of Art and Design, Limerick, 1852 Limerick School of Art website Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, 1974 - Crawford website Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, 1992 - School of Art, Design & Printing website Burren College of Art, 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 - website Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, Rome, latter part of the 16th century - website Accademia di Belle Arti di Torino "Albertina", Turin, 1678 Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Venice, 1750 - website Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, Naples, 1752 - website Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano "Brera", Milan, 1776 - website Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, Carrara, 1769 Accademia di Belle Arti di Palermo, Palermo, 1780 Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Bologna, 1802 - website Accademia di Belle Arti di Lecce, Lecce, 1960 Accademia di Belle Arti di Catania, Catania, 1967 Accademia di Belle Arti di Reggio Calabria, Reggio Calabria, 1967 Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino, Urbino, 1967 - website Accademia di Belle Arti di L'Aquila, L'Aquila, 1969 Accademia di Belle Arti di Bari, Bari, 1970 Accademia di Belle Arti di Foggia, Foggia, 1970 Accademia di Belle Arti di Catanzaro, Catanzaro, 1972 Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata, Macerata, 1972 - website Accademia di Belle Arti di Frosinone, Frosinone, 1973 Accademia di Belle Arti di Sassari, Sassari, 1989
Other academies with state recognition Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia, Perugia, 1573 Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti di Genova, Genoa, 1751 Accademia di Belle Arti di Verona, Verona, 1764 Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo, Bergamo, 1796 Accademia di Belle Arti di Ravenna, Ravenna, 1827 Accademia di Belle Arti "Lorenzo da Viterbo", Viterbo, 1975 Accademia di belle arti Michelangelo, Agrigento, 1979 Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan, 1980 Accademia di Belle Arti Aldo Galli di Como, Como, 1989 , Cuneo, 1992 , Syracuse, 1995 Accademia di Belle Arti di Sanremo, Sanremo, 1997 Accademia di Belle Arti "Fidia" di Stefanaconi, Stefanaconi, 1997 Accademia di Belle Arti "Rome University of Fine Arts" di Roma, Rome, 1998 Libera Accademia di Belle Arti LABA di Brescia, Brescia, 1999 Accademia di Belle Arti Kandinskij di Trapani, Trapani, 1999 , Brescia, 2002 Accademia di Belle Arti Abadir di San Martino delle Scale, San Martino delle Scale Accademia di Belle Arti Abadir di Sant'Agata li Battiati, Sant'Agata li Battiati , Milan Accademia di Belle Arti Europea dei Media ACME di Novara, Novara Accademia di Belle Arti I. Repin a Firenze, Florence
Latvia Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, 1921
Lithuania Vilnius Academy of Art, Vilnius, 1793
Netherlands Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, The Hague, 1682 - KABK website Willem de Kooning Academy (including Piet Zwart Institute), Rotterdam, 1773 - Willem de Kooning website Academie Minerva, Groningen, 1798 - website AKV St.Joost, Breda, Den Bosch, 1812 - website Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, 1870 - Rijksakademie website Fontys School of the Fine and Performing Arts, Tilburg, 1912 - Gerrit Rietveld Academie, 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, Groningen, 1996 - FMI website Artez, Arnhem, Enschede, and Zwolle, 2002 - ArtEZ website Utrecht School of the Arts, Utrecht, 1987 - HKU website
Norway Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Bergen, 1972/1909 Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Trondheim, 1979 Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, 1996 Tromsø Academy of fine Art, Tromsø, 1997
Poland Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Kraków, 1818 - website University of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poznań, 1919 Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Warsaw, 1932 Academy of Fine Arts In Łódź, Łódź, 1945
Portugal Colégio das Artes (University of Coimbra), Coimbra, (1542?) University of Porto, Porto, 1911 - website University of Lisbon, Lisbon, 1911 - website
Romania George Enescu University of Arts of Iași, Iași, 1864 Bucharest National University of Arts, Bucharest, 1948 Art and Design University of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, 1925
Serbia , Belgrade, 1937 , Novi Sad, 1974
Slovakia Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Bratislava, Bratislava, 1949 VSVU website
Slovenia Academy of Fine Arts and Design (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, Barcelona, 1775
Sweden Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, 1735 - http://www.kkh.se/en University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, 1844 - https://www.konstfack.se/en Valand Academy, Gothenburg, 1865 - http://akademinvaland.gu.se/english Malmö Art Academy, Malmö, 1965 - http://www.khm.lu.se/en Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå, 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 Bern Academy of Arts, Bern, 2003
United Kingdom
England Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich, 1845 - Norwich University of the Arts website University for the Creative Arts, 2005 - Canterbury, Farnham, Epsom - UCA website Royal Academy of Arts, 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, 1851 Bath School of Art and Design, Bath, 1852 Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London), London, 1854 - St Martins College website City and Guilds of London Art School, London, 1854 Arts University Plymouth, Plymouth, 1856 Slade School of Art, London, 1871 - Slade website Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art (University of Oxford), Oxford, 1871 Arts University Bournemouth, Poole, 1880 - The Arts Institute at Bournemouth website Wimbledon College of Art (University of the Arts London), London, 1890 - Wimbledon College website Goldsmiths College, London, 1891 - Goldsmiths website London College of Communication (University of the Arts London), London, 1894 - LCC website Camberwell College of Arts (University of the Arts London), London, 1898 - Camberwell College website Falmouth University, Falmouth, Cornwall, 1902 University of Leeds, Leeds, 1904