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Utrecht School of the Arts

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Utrecht School of the Arts
Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht
Established	September 1987
Location	Utrecht , Utrecht , Netherlands
Website	hku.nl/en hku.nl

The Utrecht School for the Arts^[1]^[2] (Dutch: Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht) is a performing arts and visual arts educational institution in City of Utrecht, Province of Utrecht, Netherlands. The school opened for student enrollment in September 1987.^[3]

Overview[edit]

Entrance of the department in Hilversum

The institution has 680 teachers and staff members. The Utrecht School for the Arts cooperates with the Utrecht University at many levels.

The Utrecht School for the Arts offers preparatory courses, bachelor's and master's programmes and research degrees in fine art, design, music, theatre, media, games and interaction and arts management. With more than 3,900 students, the Utrecht School for the Arts is one of the largest art and culture-oriented institutes in Europe.^[4]

The Utrecht School for the Arts is internationally oriented and involved in numerous international programmes and projects. The Utrecht School for the Arts maintains contact with almost 200 educational institutions abroad for the purpose of exchanging lecturers, students and projects. Almost 20% of the students come from outside the Netherlands. Foreign students can attend the Utrecht School for the Arts as a regular student, an exchange student in programmes such as Socrates/Erasmus, a bilateral exchange program or as an MA, MPhil or Ph.D. student. Since 1999 the Utrecht School for the Arts is an accredited institution of the Open University.^[5]

Faculty of Music[edit]

The Faculty of Music was a formed in 1987 as a result of the merger of the Utrecht Conservatory of Music, the Netherlands Institute for Church Music and the Netherlands Carillon School of Amersfoort.

Carillon School[edit]

The Netherlands Carillon School, founded in Amersfoort in 1953, is a Dutch school teaching carillon playing. Since its foundation, more than 250 students from eleven countries have studied there. They now preside over most of the 182 carillons in the Netherlands, and occupy positions in many other parts of the world. In 1985 the school became part of the Utrecht School of the Arts, Faculty of Music.

Each student of the Netherlands Carillon School can follow programs of study offered by the other schools.

Bachelor's programmes[edit]

The Utrecht School for the Arts offers bachelor courses and pathways in fine art, design, music, theatre, media, games and interaction, arts education and arts management.

Courses in English: