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 ChiropracticAA School of Architecture with Pavilion.jpg
 * 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
 * Isle of Wight College
 * 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 MusicRoyal College of Music - April 2007.jpg
 * 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 DanceRADATheatre.jpg
 * 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 CollegeBradford College.JPG
 * 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.jpg
 * 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 CollegeSGS Stroud Campus Aerial Photo.jpg
 * 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