History
The Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti was started in Milan in 1980 by Guido Ballo [ it ], Tito Varisco and Ausonio Zappa. [2] : 313 From 1985 to 1993 the artist Gianni Colombo was director of the school. [2] : 314 In 1994 it received one of the forty "Ambrogino" certificates of civic merit awarded each year by the Comune of Milan. [3] In 2008 the school began hosting a "node" of the Planetary-Collegium research platform of the University of Plymouth. [4]
It was bought by Bastogi [ it ] Spa of Milan in 2002. In December 2009 Bastogi sold it to Laureate Education of Baltimore, Maryland, for €22 million, [5] [6] and in 2017, Laureate Education sold it to Galileo Global Education as part of a $263-million deal that also included Domus Academy. [7]
A branch campus was opened in the Garbatella district of Rome in 2019, [8] and another in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park of London in 2025. [9]
The school is listed by the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università 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. [10]
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