Competitive exam results for specialist higher education establishments

The École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts trains high-level artists. It is under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture and occupies an essential place on the contemporary art scene.

The École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, commonly known as "Les Arts décoratifs", has been training sought-after actors from the international art and design community for 250 years.

The École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy is conceived as a laboratory for artistic practices. Its teaching covers a very wide spectrum of disciplines in the fields of visual arts, writing, performing arts and cinema.

The École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle – Les Ateliers is a French design school located in the 11th arrondissement of Paris.

The École professionnelle supérieure d'arts graphiques de la ville de Paris provides training courses in visual communication in the broad sense of the term for professional purposes.

Camondo School is a component of the cultural institution Les Arts Décoratifs. In 5 years, it trains designers in interior architecture and design.

The Institut Français de la Mode is private higher education establishment dedicated to education and research in the fields of fashion, luxury, design and textile, and to a reater extent, creation industries.

Diplôme National des Métiers d'Art et du Design (Ecole Boulle, Ecole Estienne, Ecole Duperré, Olivier de Serres, ...)

Gobelins is a school of animation cinema, photography, graphic design and motion design, interactive design, video games, print and multimedia communication, video and sound.

Atelier de Sèvres is a private higher education institution. Since 1979, it has been preparing students to succeed in the entrance exams of public and private art and design schools, in France and internationally. The three-year Bachelor in Art & Image trains image professionals with a personal visual style, combining creativity, critical thinking, and technical expertise.

The École européenne supérieure d’art of Brittany joins together the higher schools of art of Brest, Lorient, Quimper and Rennes. It offers courses in art, communication and design, and awards national diplomas at Bac +3 and Bac +5 levels (DNSEP being equivalent to a Master's degree).

The École Nationale Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Nancy is an art school established in Nancy during the second half of the 19th century under the name École des Beaux-Arts de Nancy.

Conceived as a research and experimentation laboratory, deliberately open to contemporary artistic realities, the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts de Lyon aims to train artists, designers and creators.

The Nantes – Saint-Nazaire School of Fine Arts, located in Nantes and Saint-Nazaire, France, is a higher education art school specializing in fine arts.

The École Supérieure d’Art et de Design de Reims trains creators in both the fields of art and design: art, object-space design, graphic and digital design. It specializes in the areas of plant design and culinary design.

The École supérieure d'art et design de Saint-Etienne offers two specializations, art and design. It created the Biennale Internationale Design in 1998.

The Haute École des Arts du Rhin (HEAR) was created in January 2011 from the merger of the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg (ESADS), the École Supérieure d’Art de Mulhouse (Le Quai), and the higher music education programs of the Strasbourg Conservatory into a single higher education institution for the arts. The Strasbourg visual arts campus offers programs in fine arts, art-object, graphic communication, visual didactics, illustration, and scenography. The Mulhouse visual arts campus offers programs in fine arts, design, and textile design

The École Supérieure d'Arts Plastiques de la Ville de Monaco (Esap) offers its students a multifaceted training in art and scenography: scenography of shows & live art and exhibition scenography.

The Ecole Supérieure d'Art et de Design Tours-Angers-Le Mans (TALM) is a public establishment of cultural cooperation created in 2010. The diplomas awarded by TALM are the DNA (National Diploma of Plastic Arts in three years) and the DNSEP (National Higher Diploma of Plastic Expression in five years) in the Art option (with mentions of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property, Sculpture and Textile Techniques) and in the Design option (with mentions of BAD design, Computational and Mechatronic Design, Sound Design and Design and Territory).

The École supérieure d'art de la Villa Arson offers a 5-year art course leading to two state diplomas: the DNAP (National Diploma of Fine Arts) at the end of the 3rd year and the DNSEP (National Postgraduate degree in Plastic Arts) at the end of the 5th year.

The Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten (Kabk) is the Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, the Netherlands.

The Design Academy Eindhoven is a higher education institution offering bachelor's and master's degree courses in art, architecture, fashion, graphic and industrial design.

The Gerrit Rietveld Academie is a fine arts school offering courses in visual arts, design, fashion and cinema.

Regularly ranked among the top 10 art and design schools in the world, ECAL (Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne) offers six Bachelor's level courses (Visual Arts, Cinema, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, Media & Interaction Design, Photography) and five Master's level courses (Visual Arts, Cinema, Product Design, Photography, Type Design).

The Geneva University of Art and Design, also known as HEAD, is a school of art and design. It offers training courses focused on professional practice and internationally recognized at Bachelor and Masters' levels in Visual Arts, Cinema, Interior Architecture, Visual Communication and Fashion, Jewellery and Accessories Design.

University of the Arts London : Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Camberwell, Chelsea, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion.