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About Us

The Australian College of the Arts (Collarts) is Australia’s leading creative industries college: home for a new generation of creatives who thrive in the world and help the world to thrive.

We are a dynamic, independent college offering certificates, diplomas, degrees and graduate courses in a wide range of creative disciplines – online and on campus. You will join more than 2,000 students from over 30 countries and 50 high schools.

We’re ranked #1 for student engagement for creative industry providers in Australia. Our outstanding teachers are deeply connected in their industries, creating real career pathways in the creative sectors.

At Collarts, you come first. You’ll find collaborators and co-conspirators, a network of connections, coaches, mentors and guides, a cheer squad. Follow your passions. Tell your stories. We see you. You’re one of us. Welcome home.

Acknowledgement

We pay our respects to the custodians and knowledge keepers of the lands we live, learn and work on here in Naarm, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong / Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin nation. We extend that respect to the custodians of the lands across which our staff and students travel and connect, and to the First Nations folk in the Collarts community.
We honour this continent’s first creatives, musicians, artists and designers – 75,000 years of unbroken storytelling – and the continuity of Indigenous cultural brilliance in which our work finds an anchor.
We stand as active allies in support of the Uluru Statement from the Heart: voice, treaty and truth. This land was never ceded. It always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.
May our footsteps be gentle.

NAIDOC Artwork Credit: Samuawgadhalgal artist Deb Belyea

Collarts Strategic Plan 2024-2028

Over three decades ago, Collarts, originally Ausmusic, began with three programs, a small cohort of students, and a dedicated team of lecturers. Since rebranding to Collarts in 2010, we now educate over 2,000 students from more than 30 countries across four campuses and 50 high schools, offering 24 degree programs and five vocational certificates. As Australia's top-ranked creative industries provider in the QILT survey, our mission is to be the nation's leading creative industries university college.

Our 2024-2028 Strategic Plan envisions navigating the complexities of a transformed future, marked by socio-cultural pressures and an unpredictable landscape. We recognise the unequal distribution of opportunities and the urgency to innovate with limited resources. This vision propels us to explore diverse ways to equip Collarts graduates for a future rich in experience and light on material consumption, fostering creativity and resilience in a rapidly changing world.

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