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Royal College of Art
Established: 1837
Type: Public
Provost: Sir Terence Conran
Rector: Sir Christopher Frayling
Students: 920[1]
Postgraduates: 920[1]
Location: London, England
Campus: Urban
Website: www.rca.ac.uk
The Darwin Building at Kensington Gore

The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a university in London, England, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate art and design institution, offering the degrees of MA, MPhil and PhD.

The results of the latest Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), published in December 2008, confirmed the Royal College of Art's position as the leading specialist art and design institution in the United Kingdom, with 40% of its research output judged to be of quality that is world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour. A further 25% is deemed internationally excellent.

The College is housed in a number of sites in South Kensington and Battersea, including the Darwin Building at Kensington Gore, and Stevens Building nearby in Jay Mews. The official reopening of the Royal College of Art’s sculpture building in Battersea marks the first step in the College’s ambitious expansion programme south of the river.

In summer 2009, the sculptors will be joined by the painting department in a new building, the first phase of a bigger scheme designed to combine the Schools of Fine Art and Applied Art, and bring the four Fine Art departments together for the first time in the College’s long history.

The second phase of the new campus will begin in 2010, housing the departments of photography and printmaking as well as a gallery and a large lecture theatre along with accommodation for 30 start-up units for businesses in the fields of art and design.

With floor space exceeding 7,000 square metres, the development will be car free with 58 cycle spaces and a minibus linking to the Kensington site. Around 250 students and staff will relocate from the main college campus in Kensington.

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The Royal College of Art was founded in 1837, and was known as the Government School of Design. It became the National Art Training School in 1853, with the Female School of Art in separate buildings, and in 1896 received the name Royal College of Art. It was often informally referred to as the South Kensington Schools during the 19th century. See Richard Burchett, an early Headmaster, for more details on this period. After 130 years in operation, the RCA was granted its Royal Charter in 1967, which gave it the status of an independent university with the power to grant its own degrees.

Its Royal Charter specifies that the objects of the College are "to advance learning, knowledge and professional competence particularly in the field of fine arts, in the principles and practice of art and design in their relation to industrial and commercial processes and social developments and other subjects relating thereto through teaching, research and collaboration with industry and commerce".

The average age of its postgraduate students, studying at Master’s and Doctoral levels, is twenty-six. Some come to the Royal College of Art direct from their undergraduate courses, others later in their careers as artists. A major survey of graduates who studied at the RCA from 2002 to 2007 has revealed that prospects for RCA graduates remain exceptionally strong. According to the latest statistics on all graduate destinations from the Royal College of Art between 2002 and 2007, an average of 93% gained work in directly related employment and at the right level. The current enrollment tally measures roughly 900 students, all taking fine art, applied art, design, communication design and humanities courses.

The Royal College of Art played a major role in the birth of the modern school of British sculpture in the 1920s, with students including Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, and in the development of Pop Art in the 1960s with students including Peter Blake and David Hockney.

The college also has an international reputation for its teaching in the fields of automotive design, photography, industrial design, communication design and interior design, fashion, ceramics and silversmithing. Degrees in the History of Design and Conservation are offered in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, while an MA in Industrial Design Engineering is offered jointly with Imperial College, both close to the college.

Also close by are the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Geographical Society, Royal College of Music and Hyde Park.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Table 0a - All students by institution, mode of study, level of study, gender and domicile 2006/07" (Microsoft Excel spreadsheet). Higher Education Statistics Agency. http://www.hesa.ac.uk/dox/dataTables/studentsAndQualifiers/download/institution0607.xls. Retrieved on 2008-04-12. 

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Coordinates: 51°30′05″N 0°10′44″W / 51.50139°N 0.17889°W / 51.50139; -0.17889

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