Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti (NABA)

The Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano (NABA) is a higher education institution of art and design emphasizing a multidisciplinary approach. It is the only undergraduate school legally recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education to grant the award of “Diploma di Accademia di Belle Arti”, the highest official degree in Italian art education and the equivalent of a university degree.

NABA's programs aim to identify the transformations taking place in contemporary artistic practice, abandon traditional boundaries of the fine arts, and acquire new attitudes toward artistic application. The programs adopt an “all encompassing approach” by associating more traditional know-how with the most advanced technology. Students are provided training in a wide range of artistic techniques, allowing for individual experimentation and the reconsideration of a traditional academic approach.

NABA offers semester and summer programs.

Domus Academy (DA)

Domus Academy was founded in Milan in 1982 as an open-project reference center for Italian design and fashion. Over the years, Domus gradually became a school in the traditional sense of the term. Today it is both a post-graduate training center and a research laboratory focusing on industrial design processes, scenarios of aesthetics and consumption, space and time relations, public and private services and the radical changes originating from the wide use of the web. Domus Academy offers Master’s level programs, semester and summer programs in all areas of art and design.

Strongly rooted in Italy, Domus Academy works in an international perspective, in order to enrich, spread and update the design culture making DA a real point of connection between design, fashion and management cultures.

Winner of the Compasso d’Oro, Italy’s most sought after design award, with a distinguished list of past lecturers such as Ettore Sottsass, Philippe Starck, Gianfranco Ferré, Neil Barrett, and Ron Arad, DA has always been a true pioneer of “Made in Italy,” not simply teaching how to design products, but considering design as a complex, challenging activity which strategically contributes to direct the form and meaning of industrial production and culturally outlines different aesthetic and social visions.

DA was recently included by Business Week among the best 60 design and management schools in the world.

DA offers summer, semester and graduate programs.