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The Conservatoire comprises eight specialist schools delivering world-leading education and vocational training in the performing arts. We train the performing artists and production professionals of the future: actors, circus artists, dancers, stage managers, technical theatre practitioners, choreographers, and directors. It is located at the heart of three vibrant cultural centers in London, Bristol, Leeds, and the Conservatoire schools. Within the Conservatoire, there is a balance between the art forms of dance, drama, circus arts, and classical and contemporary styles. Internationally renowned centers of training, our schools are also creative laboratories: we bring in national and international artists to work with our students and support emerging writers, directors, and choreographers in creating and showcasing new work. Students at our schools value the immersive experience of conservatoire training and its unparalleled access to the performing arts industries. Student satisfaction and teaching are rated consistently high in the National Student Survey. Each school has an established record of training its students to a professional standard, with excellent employment rates in dance, drama, or circus. Together, we provide a pipeline of expertly-trained performing arts professionals working in the UK’s lucrative creative industries and helping to build the UK’s international reputation. The Conservatoire is a publicly-funded institution. This means that our UK and EU students are eligible for government loans and grants (Student Finance) and financial support provided by the Conservatoire and the individual schools. Although applications are made directly to the school, and not through UCAS, our students can obtain government financial support in the same way as students from any other university. We recruit based on talent and potential, irrespective of background, and we audition or interview every eligible applicant. Celebrating diversity and working to achieve the creative potential in all our students is at the heart of the work of the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama. We are committed to training and supporting the most talented students, regardless of ethnicity, gender, disability, age, sexual orientation, or religion. Applicants to the Conservatoire schools are chosen solely based on their talent and potential to develop the skills required for their chosen profession. The Conservatoire aims to meet, and where possible exceed, its legal obligations regarding equality and diversity. To fulfill this aim, the Conservatoire has established an Equality and Diversity Group comprising Conservatoire staff and representatives from all eight schools. View full university

Central stands at the forefront of training and research in the Dramatic Arts. Graduate employment statistics are amongst the highest in our sector, and our research has recently been assessed as ‘World Leading’ – and is unique in the realm of drama conservatoires. The ratio of undergraduate applications to places is the highest of any UK university. While our actors win many of the most coveted awards worldwide, and frequent accolades in the media, a broad range of industry organizations rank Central as the gold standard in the leadership of technical and design work. So too, Central continues as a pioneering force in the application of drama skills in many social contexts. We hope you will wish to explore the range of courses, both undergraduate and postgraduate, set out on this website. Do visit for an open day, or come to our regular public productions – focused around the historic Embassy Theatre. Our facilities are widely regarded as exemplary with other specialised studios and performance spaces to be added as part of dynamic new development. Elsie Fogerty founded The Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art at the Royal Albert Hall in 1906. Fogerty was a specialist in speech training. She also had a firm belief in the social importance of education. In 1937 Fogerty was offered space on the site earmarked for the National Theatre building, with the college alongside the theatre. But that scheme, like many of the National Theatre schemes, fell through. In 1957 the School, at last, moved from the Albert Hall, having acquired the lease of the Embassy Theatre at Swiss Cottage and its associated buildings. The Embassy had a reputation, from the 1930s, for experimental and politically left-wing theatre. By 1957 this reputation had faded. When Central arrived, it was both rescuing an old theatre and weaving it into the fabric of new college buildings. At least that was the plan: inevitably, funds had to be raised. On this occasion, the champion was Sir John Davis. His work in pursuing endowments established the resources to build a new building. This was opened in 1961 by Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, who was then Central’s Patron. By 1961 three distinct departments had been established within Central. The Stage department was running its three-year course for actors, with alumni as distinguished as Lord Olivier and Dame Peggy Ashcroft already a part of its history, and a two-year course for stage managers. The Teacher Training department was preparing students for its Diploma, then a recognized teaching qualification, and for the London University Diploma in Dramatic Art. That qualification was instituted in 1912 precisely due to Fogerty’s campaign for the recognition of drama and drama teaching as subjects worthy of proper academic study. By this time, the college was as famous for its Speech Therapy department for its work in training actors. Building work continued. In June 1972, a new studio was built on the corner of Buckland Crescent and formally opened by the School’s new patron, Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra. Central became grant-aided by the Inner London Education Authority in 1972. In 1989 it was ‘incorporated’ as a higher education college in its own right and funded directly by the government. It had been offering degrees since 1986, first of all, validated by the Council of National Academic Awards. From 1992 its degrees were validated by the Open University. From the early 1990s onwards, extensive building work has taken place: a new workshop facility was opened in 1991. In the summer of 1993, an extension was added to the Embassy Theatre – a studio theatre, design studios, and wardrobe facilities. In 1997 the college completed a five-story block to the east of the campus, providing a new library, a learning resources center and computing facilities, a student standard room, student bar, and staff offices. A refurbished Embassy Theatre was opened in 2002 and followed in 2005 by the West Block, with its several floors of state-of-the-art performance spaces and rehearsal rooms. In 2005 the Privy Council granted the college the power to award its own taught degrees. In the same year, students from the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art transferred to Central, bringing the academy’s 100-year history of significant contributions to stage and screen. In that year, the School was the only specialist theatre institution to win the award of Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, becoming the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s designated Centre for Excellence in Training for Theatre. Its purpose as a Centre for Excellence is to provide a national resource for vocational performing arts training and learning, a focus for theatre research and scholarship, and national and international collaboration. With effect from September 2005, Central became a College of the University of London and fulfilled Elsie Fogerty’s original ambitions. And then in 2012, came new recognition... Fogerty used to say that while the Principal of the Academy of Dramatic Art had been seeking a royal title for his institution, she had been too busy working with children in the slums to do that sort of thing. But a century later, the achievement of the college she founded properly got its recognition when in November 2012, Her Majesty the Queen conferred Royal Title on Central. View full university

The Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, the National Conservatoire of Wales, and part of the University of South Wales Group competes alongside an international peer group of conservatoires and specialist arts colleges for the best students globally, enabling students to enter and influence the world of music, theatre, and related professions. The College educates some of the most talented students worldwide, aiming to give them the technical and craft skills they will need to succeed at the top levels of the profession and help them develop their artistic voice.' The College's events calendar encompasses over 300 public performances every year, including orchestral concerts, recitals, drama, opera, and musical theatre. The creative diversity of the College ensures a stimulating environment and broad experience for students of all disciplines. Our dedicated teachers have a wealth of professional and industry experience, and the College collaborates with several high-profile arts organizations, including Welsh National Opera, BBC NOW, visiting artists and directors, to ensure that the unique vocational nature of our training programs reflects the current practices and conditions of the professional world. The College is continually pushing boundaries with innovative and exciting programs of study tailored to contemporary arts and creative industries' demands. In 2009, its 60th anniversary year, the College became the UK's first All-Steinway Conservatoire. The focus is always on the future, and we take immense pride in our students' world-class talent. Set in the grounds of Cardiff Castle, bordering one of the largest and most beautiful urban parks in the UK, the College is well known for its distinctly warm and welcoming character. With just over 600 students, there is a real sense of community, and we can offer our students an outstanding level of support. Our ambition is to make an ever more central contribution to Cardiff's cultural life, to Wales, and through our graduates, to the international arts industry. In June 2011, the Royal Welsh College's dream of having its world-class performance and rehearsal spaces became a reality as it opened its doors to new £22.5 million facilities. This year, students will be learning in a performance arts center that will be a hub of cultural life. View full university

Central stands at the forefront of training and research in the Dramatic Arts. Graduate employment statistics are amongst the highest in our sector, and our research has recently been assessed as 'World Leading' – and is unique in the realm of drama conservatoires. The ratio of undergraduate applications to places is the highest of any UK university. While our actors win many of the most coveted awards worldwide and frequent accolades in the media, a broad range of industry organizations rank Central as the gold standard in technical and design work leadership. So too, Central continues as a pioneering force in applying dramatic skills in many social contexts. We hope you will wish to explore the range of courses, both undergraduate and postgraduate, set out on this website. Do visit for an open day, or come to our regular public productions – focused around the historic Embassy Theatre. Our facilities are widely regarded as exemplary, with other specialized studios and performance spaces added to dynamic new development. Elsie Fogerty founded The Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art at the Royal Albert Hall in 1906. Fogerty was a specialist in speech training. She also had a firm belief in the social importance of education. The students of her School quickly became famous for their delivery in verse-speaking competitions, their appearance in theatres, and their work with children in London's deprived areas. While Central developed a name for actor training, its founder was at the same time committed to advancing the study of theatre as an academic discipline. Long before founding the first university drama department in the UK, Fogerty argued that theatre should be studied at university and that theatre training should be awarded degrees. In 1937 Fogerty was offered space on the site earmarked for the National Theatre building, with the college alongside the theatre. But that scheme, like many of the National Theatre schemes, fell through. In 1957 the School, at last, moved from the Albert Hall, having acquired the lease of the Embassy Theatre at Swiss Cottage and its associated buildings. The Embassy had a reputation, from the 1930s, for experimental and politically left-wing theatre. By 1957 this reputation had faded. When Central arrived, it rescued an old theatre and weaved it into the fabric of new college buildings. At least that was the plan: inevitably, funds had to be raised. On this occasion, the champion was Sir John Davis. His work in pursuing endowments established the resources to build a new building. This was opened in 1961 by Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, who was then Central's Patron. View full university

The Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media Hannover (HMTMH) are among Germany's most renowned institutions for professional training and academic study in the cultural and artistic field. Some 360 teachers, amongst them numerous internationally celebrated artists, educationalists, and academics teach nearly 1,500 students from all over the world. The balance between music, drama, education, and academic research and the commitment to excellence both at the highest level of solo performance and in the broader training of ensemble players and teachers are at the core of HMTMH's understanding of its role. To this end, the University provides a broad but differentiated offering of courses and programs, currently consisting of 33 study programs supplemented by world-class master classes. About 500 public concerts and performances a year make the HMTMH one of the most prominent organizers of cultural events in the State of Lower Saxony. To provide long-term support for "Hanover, Region of Culture" and "Lower Saxony, Land of Music," Lower Saxony's only conservatoire stays in a permanent exchange with society and initiates several musical outreach activities. The highest level of international recognition accorded the HMTMH has always been for its artistic performance programs. The overall focus is on the promotion of individual talent as well as of orchestral competence. In the instrumental performance programs, professors teach all orchestral instruments except the harp – this is a clear commitment to orchestral musicians' professional training right across the board and secures the HMTMH a top-ranking position both in a national and in an international perspective. The Departments of Chamber Music, Contemporary Music, Ancient Music, Jazz|Rock|Pop, and Musicology are sources of artistic inspiration for the HMTMH's more comprehensive range of offerings. Furthermore, the Institute for the Early Advancement of the Musically Highly Gifted (IFF), established in 2001, plays a vital role in providing professional training for talented young musicians. Around 500 international students and many teachers from all over the world show the HMTMH emphasis on internationality. However, internationality is not only created by the presence of international students but through mobility and exchange. At the HMTMH, this concept is put into practice in both teaching and research. The HMTMH profits from an outstanding international network and many cooperations, animating you to join this versatile and vivid environment. Offering a large variety of undergraduate and graduate programs in Music, Drama, and Media, the University provides the opportunity to combine the meeting diversity of interests. In cooperation with local cultural institutions, the HMTMH has become an international well-positioned university uniting both art and science on the highest level, creating a place of cultural diversity and innovation. The HMTMH is a member of the ERASMUS community and has possessed an ERASMUS-Charta since 2000. A long list of partners enables students and teachers, and staff members to join in the European mobility according to their interests and needs. Moreover, the University is a member of the AEC (Association Européenne des Conservatoires, Académies de Musique et Musikhochschulen), the European cultural and pedagogical network of 270 institutions from 55 countries. The International Office of the HMTMH advises and informs students, teachers, and staff wishing to spend some time abroad and people interested in spending a period at the HMTMH. Offering information on scholarships and grants, language, activities, and financial matters make the International Office your partner in all international matters. The German language has a reputation that it is difficult to learn. Even for Germans! However, it consists of many details that are not so important at the beginning even if you are insecure about your German, talk! The International Office offers many opportunities for you to practice either during the language course or the activities. It is difficult for famous people to learn and understand the German grammar you may read in this text by Mark Twain. Furthermore, we have created a little emergency kit for you. View full university

The second time the University of Theatre and Film Arts (Budapest) organizes the FACT (Festival Arts Cinema Theatre) international festival, this time between the 1st and 4th February 2018. What distinguishes FACT from other European festivals of drama universities is that film and theatre appear side by side. Special attention is also given to related arts by presenting the works of set and costume design students. FACT aims to provide Hungarian and international students the opportunity to present their diploma films and performances to an international audience, participate in workshops together, and establish long-term professional relationships. The students of six international and two Hungarian drama universities will participate in this year's festival. Those interested will have a chance to see a wide variety of performances from one-person (one audience member!) shows to ones played by large ensembles on the big stage. Productions of the drama universities of Brno, München, Reykjavík, Versico, and Kaposvár have been invited to this year's FACT, and the host, the University of Theatre and Film Arts, will present four of its productions. Student-led productions selected through an international competition will also be part of the program, as we believe it is essential to present and support initiatives of this kind. Within the festival's frame, we organize two conferences, the subject of one being the work of film director Zoltán Fábri, whose centennial we celebrated last year. At the same time, the other focuses on the present and future of Hungarian drama education. Teaching staff, both practical and academic, from Budapest, Novi Sad, Târgu Mureş, Cluj-Napoca, and Kaposvár, from every higher education drama institution, where training is provided in Hungarian, will take part in this conference. Besides the sixteen productions, an exhibition will be held of costume and set designs by students from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, and Rippl-Rónai Faculty of Arts, University of Kaposvár, BA in Applied Scenography and there also will be a screening of various award-winning documentaries and short films by students of film from the University of Theatre and Film Arts. What distinguishes FACT from other European festivals of drama universities is that film and theatre appear side by side. Special attention is also given to related arts by presenting the works of set and costume design students. FACT aims to provide Hungarian and international students the opportunity to present their diploma films and performances to an international audience, participate in workshops together, and establish long-term professional relationships. The students of six international and two Hungarian drama universities will participate in this year's festival. Those interested will have a chance to see a wide variety of performances from one-person (one audience member!) shows to ones played by large ensembles on the big stage. Productions of the drama universities of Brno, München, Reykjavík, Versico, and Kaposvár have been invited to this year's FACT, and the host, the University of Theatre and Film Arts, will present four of its productions. Student-led productions selected through an international competition will also be part of the program, as we believe it is essential to present and support initiatives of this kind. Within the festival's frame, we organize two conferences, the subject of one being the work of film director Zoltán Fábri, whose centennial we celebrated last year. At the same time, the other focuses on the present and future of Hungarian drama education. Teaching staff, both practical and academic, from Budapest, Novi Sad, Târgu Mureş, Cluj-Napoca, and Kaposvár from every higher education drama institution, where training is provided in Hungarian will take part in this conference. View full university