This is a list of dissenting academies in England and Wales, operating in the 19th century.
Over this period the religious disabilities of English Dissenters were lifted within the educational system, and the rationale for the existence of a system of general education parallel to that requiring Church of England beliefs therefore fell away.
This provision of general education for Dissenters was one of two functions of the academies, the other being the training of ministers (Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Baptist, Methodist and Unitarian).
Colleges that were in effect nonconformist seminaries could also become theological institutions within universities.
By the end of the century the remaining independent "dissenting" system in practical terms had become a network of nonconformist theological colleges.