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The Royal College of Art ('''RCA''') is a University in London , England , housed in the Darwin Building in Kensington Gore , South Kensington . It is the world’s only wholly Postgraduate Art and Design institution, offering the degrees of M.A. , M.Phil. and Ph.D. . The college was founded in 1837 , and was then known as the ''Government School of Design''. It became the ''National Art Training School'' in 1853 , and in 1896 received the name ''The Royal College of Art''. After 130 years in operation, the RCA was granted a Royal Charter in 1967 , which gave it the status of an independent university with the power to grant its own degrees. The current enrollment tally measures roughly 900 students, all taking Fine Art , Applied Art , design, and communications courses. The Rector of the RCA is the historian and critic Sir Christopher Frayling . The Royal College of Art played a major role in the birth of the modern school of British sculpture in the 1920s , with students including Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore , and in the development of Pop Art in the 1960s with students including Peter Blake and David Hockney . The college also has an international reputation for its teaching in the fields of Automotive Design , photography, Industrial Design and interior design, fashion, ceramics and silversmithing. Degrees in the History of Design are offered in collaboration with the Victoria And Albert Museum , close to the college. Also close by are the Royal Albert Hall , the Royal College Of Music , Imperial College and Hyde Park . NOTABLE ALUMNI
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