The Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti ('new academy of fine arts'), also known as NABA, is a private academy of fine art in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. In 2013 it had approximately 3000 students, some of them from abroad.
The Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti was started in Milan in 1980 by , Tito Varisco and Ausonio Zappa. From 1985 to 1993 the artist Gianni Colombo was director of the school. In 1994 it received one of the forty "Ambrogino" certificates of civic merit awarded each year by the Comune of Milan. In 2008 the school began hosting a "node" of the Planetary-Collegium research platform of the University of Plymouth.
It was bought by Spa of Milan in 2002. In December 2009 Bastogi sold it to Laureate Education of Baltimore, Maryland, for â¬22 million, and in 2017, Laureate Education sold it to Galileo Global Education as part of a $263-million deal that also included Domus Academy.
A branch campus was opened in the Garbatella district of Rome in 2019, and another in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park of London in 2025.
The school is listed by the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'UniversitÃÂ e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of education, as a "legally recognised academy" in the AFAM classification of schools of music, art and dance that are considered equivalent to a traditional university.