# 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 ChiropracticArchitectural 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
* 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 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
* 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 DanceRoyal 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 CollegeBradford 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 CollegeSouth 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