Royal College of Art

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Royal College of Art
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founding 1837
Sponsorship state
place London , UK
Rector Paul Thompson
Students 2150
Website www.rca.ac.uk
The Royal College of Art

The Royal College of Art ( RCA ) is a public research university for art and design in London and the only university in the world for exclusively postgraduate students in this field. The RCA has three campuses in the boroughs of South Kensington, Battersea and White City. In the QS World University Rankings , it was ranked first in 2019 as the world's best university for art and design for the fifth year in a row; It also took first place in the 2015 BOF ranking as the most successful global fashion university.

Around 2100 students from over 70 different countries are enrolled at the four institutes of the RCA - Architecture, Communication Studies, Design and (Fine and Applied) Arts & Humanities. The university offers MA , M.Phil. , MRes and Ph.D. on.

The History of Design course runs in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum ; there are also two dual MA / MSc courses in design / engineering together with Imperial College London .

Close to the RCA are the Royal Albert Hall , the Royal College of Music , the Imperial College and Hyde Park .

history

The college was founded in 1837 under the name Government School of Design . It became the National Art Training School in 1853 and the Royal College of Art in 1896 . In the 19th century the name South Kensington School (s) was common because of its location .

The Royal College of Art was instrumental in creating the modern school of British sculpture in the 1920s with students like Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, and in the development of Pop Art in the 1960s with students like Peter Blake and David Hockney .

After 130 years, the institute received the status of an independent university in 1967.

Well-known graduates

literature

  • Frank P. Brown: South Kensington & its art training. Longmans, Greene & Co., London 1912, pp. 19-20 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ): “… until the year 1897, when the School was named the Royal College of Art in place of that of the National Art Training School, and a Diploma of Associateship was established. A year later Mr. Walter Crane was appointed Principal of the College, ... ”

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/dr-paul-thompson/
  2. ↑ topuniversities.com
  3. ↑ Global Fashion School Rankings 2015 | #BoFEducation. Retrieved July 7, 2017 (UK English).
  4. ↑ Royal College of ARt: Vice-Chancellor's Foreword. In: https://www.rca.ac.uk/ . Retrieved April 2, 2019 .
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