Glasgow School of Art

http://www.gsa.ac.uk/

The Glasgow School of Art is one of Europe’s leading higher education institutions for the education and research in the visual creative disciplines.

Located in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city, the GSA is Scotland’s only independent art school and one of a small number in the United Kingdom and our creative community comprises just over 1900 students and approximately 350 staff.  Our staff and students form a global creative community, with nearly 20% of our students coming from outside the UK.

Undergraduate students study within 10 specialist fine art, design or digital departments or within the internationally renowned Mackintosh School of Architecture.  Undergraduate students make up the largest part of our student community.

Our postgraduate community is focused within the Graduate School, delivering a range of taught masters and research programmes.  We have over 20 taught postgraduate and research degrees programme, and the GSA’s Graduate School has one of the UK’s largest postgraduate communities in creative education.

 The GSA is internationally recognised as one of Europe’s foremost higher education institutions for creative education and research in fine art, design and architecture.

Since the School was founded in 1845 as one of the first Government Schools of Design, as a centre of creativity promoting good design for the manufacturing industries, our role has continually evolved and redefined to reflect the needs of the communities we are part of, embracing in the late 19th century fine art and architecture education and today, digital technology.

Then as now our vision remains the same – to provide world-class creative education and research in architecture, design and fine art that makes a significant cultural, social and economic contribution.