Leeds Arts University is a specialist arts further and higher education institution, based in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with a main campus opposite the University of Leeds.

From 1968 to 1993 it was known as Jacob Kramer College, after Jacob Kramer, having lost part of its provision to Leeds Polytechnic (the future Leeds Beckett University).

[8] Skin, DJ, fashion icon, actress, activist and lead singer of Skunk Anansie, was appointed as the university's chancellor in 2021.

[9] The University today has city centre sites at Blenheim Walk and at Vernon Street.

Like many of the 'traditional' British art schools, it has a modest annual intake, at 2,145 higher education students in 2022/23.