Founded in 1980, NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, with campus in Milan and in Rome, is the largest private art academy in Italy. Since 1981 NABA is legally recognised by the Higher Education in Art and Music system (AFAM, Alta Formazione Artistica e Musicale), regulated by the Ministry of University and Research (MUR).

NABA is named the Best Italian Academy of Fine Arts for two years in a row (2021 and 2022) by the QS World University Rankings® by Subject Art&Design. The teaching methodology is interdisciplinary, the result of a true vocation for research and relations with the artistic and professional context. A collaborative network of institutions and partners facilitating sharing, growth, and enriching knowledge beyond the perimeters of the Academy in the fields of fashion, design, visual arts, media and new technologies, graphics and communication. NABA offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in communication and graphic, fashion, design, media design and new technologies, set design and visual arts. Programs are taught either in Italian or English.

• To study in Milan and Rome, the international capitals of Design, Culture, Art and Fashion;
• To cooperate with companies and institutions in projects, workshops and internships and to benefit from many other career opportunities;
• To gain a multidisciplinary, global, experimentation-oriented approach;
• To learn from prestigious faculty professors and lecturers, and internationally famous professionals;
• To undertake programmes in Italian or English and earn a degree which is legally recognised by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR), as well as at an international level;
• To study at a multi-awarded and globally ranked institution, named Best Italian Academy and in the Top 100 worldwide in Art&Design by QS World University Rankings® by Subject, and selected among the leading Design and Fashion schools by DOMUS Magazine and FRAME Publishers.