NABA – Italian Design and Fashion school
Higher education centre, Graduate school in Milan, Italy
NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) is a private art and design academy founded in Milan in 1980 and accredited by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MUR) in 1981. Since 2018 it has been part of the Galileo Global Education group. Besides its Milan campus, it opened a campus in Rome in 2019 and a new international campus in London.
NABA teaches in six areas: visual arts, communication and graphic design, design, set design, fashion design, and media design and new technologies. It offers three-year Bachelor of Arts programmes, two-year Master of Arts programmes (120 CFA credits, degrees recognised by the MUR) and Academic Masters. Programmes are taught in Italian and English; NABA has offered degree programmes in English since the 1990s. Students in most bachelor's programmes can spend a semester abroad, and the academy has more than 70 Erasmus+ cooperation agreements. According to NABA, it is among the world's top 50 institutions for Art and Design in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2026.
Undergraduate students can apply for NABA scholarships that partly cover tuition, and for financial aid based on merit and economic need. A new student residence, Villaggio, managed by CX, is available to NABA students.
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Programmes
Three-year Bachelor of Arts (BA) programmes:
- Comics and Visual Storytelling
- Creative Technologies
- Design (also in London)
- Fashion Design (also in London)
- Fashion Marketing Management (also in London)
- Film and Animation
- Graphic Design and Art Direction
- Marketing and Management for Creative Business
- Empowering AI
- Painting and Visual Arts
- Set Design
Students in most programmes can study abroad for a semester.
Scholarships and financial aid
- NABA scholarships that partly cover tuition for bachelor's students
- Financial aid: a partial tuition reduction for students with limited means, based on academic merit and economic situation; applicants submit a form, a letter explaining their request and official financial documents, and a board reviews applications at the end of each month
- DSU regional study grants (Lombardy), awarded through an annual competition based on income and merit
Students resident in the EU for at least three years with EU income may have their fees adjusted to family income.
Subjects taught
- Arts, Design and Crafts
- Fine Arts
- Fashion
- Design
- Graphic Design
- Visual Arts