| The top 10 art schools focus on the visual arts, | | | | sculpture, painting, and drawing. |
| such as graphic design, illustration, painting, | | | | 6. The New School of Classical Art (NSCA) offers |
| photography, and sculpture according to the | | | | the Atelier Method of art instruction and is based |
| author's best research results. | | | | in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, USA. It was founded |
| 1. The California Institute of Earth Art and | | | | in 2005 by the Master Painter and Classical |
| Architecture is at the progressive end of Earth | | | | Realism (arts)Artist Dana Levin. |
| Art and Ceramic Architecture technologies today. | | | | 7. The China Academy of Art has the most |
| 2. Creative people require creative careers. The | | | | complete range of degree offerings and programs |
| Art Institute of Phoenix leads the way to these | | | | of study in fine arts in China. There are eight |
| opportunities. Programs focus on design- | | | | schools under its jurisdiction offering Ph.D., |
| advertising, graphic, interior, and Web design. | | | | master's and bachelor's degrees in fine arts, |
| 3. The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute | | | | design, architecture, multi-media and film. |
| offers an self-governing research and academic | | | | 8. Iceland Academy of the Arts (Icelandic: |
| program designed to encourage new approaches | | | | Listaháskóli Íslands) is an |
| to the understanding of issues and objects from | | | | Icelandic arts school which offers education in arts |
| an adaptable style of art. | | | | at university level. |
| 4. The Cranbrook Academy of Art, located in the | | | | 9. The Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution |
| affluent Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, MI, is a | | | | based in Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy |
| prominent graduate school of architecture, art and | | | | was formed to rival the Society of Artists after |
| design. Founded in 1932 by philanthropists George | | | | an unseemly leadership dispute between two |
| Gough Booth and wife Ellen Scripps Booth, it is | | | | leading architects, Sir William Chambers and James |
| part of the larger Cranbrook Educational | | | | Paine. in Piccadilly, London. |
| Community, also founded by the couple. | | | | 10. The Royal Swedish Academy of Arts or Kungl. |
| 5. The New York Academy of Art or Graduate | | | | Akademien för de fria konsterna, founded in |
| School of Figurative Art is the only accredited | | | | 1773 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal |
| school of its kind in the world. Blending the | | | | Academies in Sweden. The Academy is an |
| traditions of the Italian and French Academies, the | | | | independent organization, which acts to promote |
| Academy focuses on the study of the human | | | | painting, sculpting, building and the other visual arts. |
| figure by rigorously studying anatomy, art history, | | | | |