Hereford College of Arts is only specialist Art, Design and Performing Arts College located at Folly Lane Hereford which was founded in 1851 and has a total of about 850 students. It is one of the few colleges left in the UK where students as young as 16 can study in the same environment as undergraduates, practising artists and designers. It offers art and design specialist courses in both further and higher education fields like Artist Blacksmithing, Contemporary Applied Arts, Graphic & Media Design, Animation, Film & Video, Graphic Design, Photography, Web Design, Textile Design and Spatial Design.