List of colleges in the United Kingdom offering higher education courses

This is a list of colleges in the United Kingdom offering higher education courses. Many of the colleges below are "listed bodies" that are authorised to offer courses leading to a degree from a UK university or other body with degree-awarding powers. Others may offer non-degree higher education courses such as Higher National Diplomas or Higher National Certificates.

Colleges of higher education should not be confused with colleges of further education, which offer a different level of qualifications.

Colleges of higher education

• Academy of Contemporary Music
• Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, London and Wigan
• All Nations Christian College
• Alpha Meridian College, Greenwich
• Anglo-European College of Chiropractic

  

  Architectural Association School of Architecture, London

• Architectural Association School of Architecture
• Arts Educational Schools, London
• Asanté Academy of Chinese Medicine
• Bird College
• Birmingham Christian College
• Birmingham International College
• Blackburne House Centre for Women
• Blake Hall College
• Brighton Institute of Modern Music
• Bristol Baptist College
• British College of Osteopathic Medicine
• British Institute of Technology & E-commerce
• British School of Osteopathy
• City and Guilds of London Art School
• College of Accountancy and Management Studies, Hayes, Hillingdon
• College of Estate Management, Reading, Berkshire
• College of the Resurrection, Mirfield
• Conservatoire for Dance and Drama
• Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol
• Central School of Ballet in London
• London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
• London Contemporary Dance School
• Northern School of Contemporary Dance in Chapeltown, West Yorkshire
• eCollege London
• Edinburgh College of Art
• EF Brittin College Manchester
• English National Ballet School
• EThames Graduate School
• European School of Osteopathy
• Futureworks Media School, Manchester
• Glasgow School of Art
• Grafton College of Management Sciences, London
• Guildford School of Acting
• Guildhall School of Music and Drama
• Halifax Group of Colleges
• Albert College, Leicester|Albert College, Leicester
• Halifax College, London|Halifax College, London
• Hamilton College, London|Hamilton College, London
• Hertford Regional College
• Holborn College
• Hult International Business School
• Impact International College
• International College Scotland
• International Business School, Manchester
• Leeds College of Business Management and Technology
• Leeds College of Music
• Leeds Professional College
• Leyton College
• Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts
• London Academy of Management Sciences
• London College of Advanced Studies
• London College of Business & Computing
• London College of Management Studies
• London Film School
• London Institute of Shipping & Transport
• London Reading College
• London School of Accountancy & Management
• London School of Business and Finance
• London School of Business and Management
• London School of Jewish Studies
• London School of Theology
• Manchester International College
• Manchester Universal Academy
• Maritime Greenwich College
• Mont Rose College of Management and Sciences in London
• National Centre for Circus Arts in London
• National Film and Television School
• Newcastle Academy of Business & Technology
• New London College
• Oxford College of London
• Oxford House College
• Plymouth College of Art and Design
• The Prince's Drawing School
• The Prince's School of Traditional Arts
• Rayat London College
• European Business School London
• Regent's American College London
• Regent's Business School London
• School of Psychotherapy & Counselling Psychology
• Webster Graduate School
• Rose Bruford College
• Royal College of Music

  

  Royal College of Music

• Royal Northern College of Music
• Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
• Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama
• SAE Institute
• Scottish Agricultural College
• Sotheby's Institute of Art
• Taitec Manchester
• Tech Music Schools
• Bass Guitar-X
• Drumtech
• Guitar-X
• Keyboardtech
• Vocaltech
• Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
• UHI Millennium Institute (Institiùd OGE nam Mìle Bliadhna) (University of the Highlands and Islands)
• Argyll College, Dunoon, Argyll
• Highland Theological College, Dingwall
• Inverness College, Inverness
• Lews Castle College, Stornoway, Lewis
• Lochaber College, Fort William
• Moray College, Elgin
• NAFC Marine Centre (North Atlantic Fisheries College), Scalloway, Shetland
• North Highland College, Thurso
• Orkney College, Kirkwall, Orkney
• Perth College, Perth
• Air Service Training, Perth Airport
• Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance

  

  Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), London

• Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London
• Royal College of Arts
• Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Sleat on Skye, and Islay
• Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, Argyll
• Shetland College, Lerwick, Shetland
• Sustainable Development Research Centre, Forres, Moray
• University Campus Suffolk
• Wessex Institute of Technology
• Western Governors Graduate School
• Waltham International College
• The Woolf Institute of Abrahamic Faiths, based at Wesley House, Cambridge
• Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations
• Centre for the Study of Muslim-Jewish Relations
• Writtle College

Further education colleges offering degree courses

• Access To Music
• Belfast Metropolitan College

  

  Bradford College, West Yorkshire

• Blackpool and The Fylde College
• Bradford College
• Brighton Institute of Modern Music
• Bromley College of Further & Higher Education
• Canterbury College
• Central College Nottingham
• Central Sussex College
• Chaucer College
• City College Brighton & Hove
• Coleg Llandrillo Cymru
• Colchester Institute
• Cornwall College, Camborne, Newquay, St Austell and Saltash
• Duchy College, Stoke Climsland and Rosewarne, Penzance
• Falmouth Marine School

  

• Croydon College
• Farnborough College of Technology
• Franciscan International Study Centre
• Glasgow College of Nautical Studies
• Grimsby Institute of Further & Higher Education
• Guildford College
• Hereford College of Arts
• K College
• Leicester College
• Loughborough College
• Middlesbrough College
• Myerscough College
• Northbrook College
• Oxford & Cherwell Valley College
• Plumpton College
• Redcar & Cleveland College
• Selby College
• South Downs College
• Southern Regional College

  

  South Gloucestershire and Stroud College

• South Gloucestershire and Stroud College
• South West College
• Sussex Coast College
• Sussex Downs College
• Stockport College
• Swansea College
• Truro and Penwith College
• Wakefield College
• Westminster Kingsway College
• Weston College
• Ystrad Mynach College
• South Chelsea College
• Peter Symonds College
• Barton Peveril College

Defunct institutions

Higher education institutions that no longer exist due to closure, mergers, de-mergers etc. (but not institutions that have merely changed their name) include:

• Bedford College of Higher Education, Bedford
• Bell College, Hamilton and Dumfries
• Bretton Hall College, Wakefield
• Bulmershe College of Higher Education (BCHE), Reading
• Crewe and Alsager College of Higher Education
• Dartington College of Arts
• Garnett College, London
• Hereford College of Education, Hereford
• Kent Institute of Art & Design, Canterbury, Maidstone and Rochester
• National Heart and Lung Institute
• Northern School of Music, Manchester
• Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, split into two separate medical schools
• Royal College of Science, London
• Royal Manchester College of Music
• La Sainte Union College of Higher Education, Southampton

See also

• List of universities in the United Kingdom