DEGREE VALUE

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVE

AFAM (L’Alta Formazione Artistica, Musicale e Coreutica, or Higher Artistic, Musical and Dance Training, refers to higher education in the arts and is parallel and equivalent to the current university system as established by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research in 1999.
ISIA (Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche, or the Higher Institute for Artistic Industries) is a university-level design school among the AFAM institutes that offers a broad array of instruction, from product to communication design.
The educational objective is to train designers of the highest professional quality; to that end, IAAD.’s courses ensure the acquisition of the knowledge, skills and tools needed in design professions while providing advanced formal and technical research connected to industrial production and the cultlural traditions where these activities take place.

ACADEMIC DEGREES

IAAD. has been authorized by MIUR (Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e delle Ricerca or the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research) – now called MUR – to award academic diplomas of the first level (180 CFA) for three-year design courses equivalent to bachelor’s degrees, at their institute in Torino, in:

• Design – Product Design (D.M. 162 del 13.03.2013)
• Design – Interior Design (D.M. 162 del 13.03.2013)
• Design – Textile and Fashion Design (D.M. 162 del 13.03.2013)
• Design – Transportation Design (D.M. 162 del 13.03.2013)
• Design – Social Innovation Design  – Innovation Design per impresa, cultura, società (D.M. 330 del 19.04.18) 
• Graphic and Editorial Design  – Communication Design (D.M. 162 del 13.03.2013)
• Graphic and Editorial Design – Digital Communication Design (D.M. 22 del 18.01.2018)

IAAD. has also been authorized to award an Accademic Master’s at the first level:

• New Media Communication – Digital Marketing & Communication Management (Nota DGSINF 12397 del 14.05.2020)