NAFA collaborates with seven universities from United Kingdom, United States and Singapore offering top-up Bachelor with Honours degree programmes. Through these collaborations, NAFA aims to provide an education par excellence that is student-oriented with professional tutoring by the Academy’s team of experienced practitioners from the industry. The degree programmes in NAFA are aimed at promoting independent learning, originality and creativity.

Loughborough University (LU)

Loughborough University was originally founded in 1909 as Loughborough Technical Institute, later known as Loughborough College. In 1966, the College of Technology received its Royal Charter and became Loughborough University of Technology. In 1998, the University amalgamated with the College of Art and Design. Loughborough University is a centre of excellence in teaching and learning, research and enterprise, and is one of the top-rated universities in the UK. It won the ‘Times Higher’ Best Student Experience Award in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, as voted for by students themselves. Loughborough University has also won six Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education - the most prestigious award to educational institutions in the UK, an achievement matched only by the University of Oxford.

Purchase College, State University of New York (SUNY)

Purchase College, State University of New York (SUNY), founded by Governor Nelson Rockefeller in 1967 as the cultural gem of the State University of New York system, Purchase College today enjoys a world-class reputation for its arts programmes and high rankings for its liberal arts and sciences programs. The college attracts students and faculty from around the world seeking a place where they can develop their talents, expand their minds and prepare for a life of creative independence. With two styles of education-traditional liberal arts and science programmes, and conservatory-based arts programmes in close contact in one campus, Purchase College is a community of students, faculty, and friends where open-minded engagement with the creative process leads to a lifetime of intellectual growth and professional opportunity. The focus and diversity at Purchase College is notable. The 4,000 students and 300 faculty members here are not passive culture appreciators but active culture generators.

Royal College of Music (RCM)

Founded in 1882, the Royal College of Music enjoys a reputation as one of the world’s leading conservatoires, providing specialised musical education and professional training at the highest international level for performers, conductors and composers. The programmes at RCM enable students to develop musical skills, knowledge, understanding and resourcefulness, which will enable them to contribute significantly to musical life internationally. Since its foundation by the Prince of Wales, later Edward Vll, the College has been linked with the Royal family. The College’s patron is currently Her Majesty The Queen. For 40 years, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother was President; in 1993 HRH The Prince of Wales became President, Her Majesty The Queen Mother becoming President Emerita. The College’s influence on the development of music in the last 100 years is incalculable. Through its doors have passed some of the most distinguished and influential figures in British music history. The College’s influence is not merely historical, however: it continues to grow year by year attracting some of the finest talents of each generation. www.rcm.ac.uk

Singapore Institute of Management University (UNISIM)

SIM University (UniSIM) is the only privately-funded Singapore university approved by the Ministry of Education to issue degrees in a comprehensive range of disciplines. Established on a social mission to cater to working adults, UniSIM focuses on the upgrading and learning needs of professionals and adult learners. It adopts a flexible and practice-focused learning approach and offers more than 50 academic programmes in various disciplines. It has an enrolment of more than 11,000 students. Eligible Singaporeans and Permanent Residents taking UniSIM’s undergraduate programmes enjoy a government subsidy of up to 55% of tuition fees. UniSIM has been a Singapore “Institution of a Public Character” (IPC) since September 2005.

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) based in Preston, is gaining a national and international reputation as one of the UK’s most innovative universities. Granted university status in 1992, UCLan’s roots go back to 1828 with the founding of the ‘Institution for the Diffusion of Knowledge’. UCLan has evolved into one of the largest universities in the UK with over 36,000 students and a dynamic course portfolio of over 500 undergraduate programmes and 180 postgraduate programmes. The university offers degrees from Bachelor’s to Doctoral level through its 16 academic schools. For the sixth year running, UCLan has been ranked as the leading modern University in the North West of England by the Complete University Guide 2012, The Guardian newspaper’s University Guide 2012 and The Sunday Times Good University Guide for 2012.In 2010, UCLan became the only UK university to be newly admitted to the prestigious QS World University Rankings and was one of just 53 UK universities to be included. UCLan’s School of Art, Design and Performance is ranked in the top 20 in Student Satisfaction scores, top 15 for employability by the Guardian and top 20 for employability by The Times. With strong links in the industry, the School’s high profile alumni and graduates regularly win prestigious awards.

University of East London (UEL)

With over 23,000 students from 120 countries worldwide, UEL is one of the UK’s most diverse and fastest growing universities. According to The Guardian and The Times Higher Research League Tables (2010), UEL is now one of the top modern (post 1992) universities in London for research. The Fashion Textiles Department at UEL is one of the five key fields of study in The School of Arts and Visual Industries and the chosen collaborative partner university for the Fashion Studies Department. This innovative and well-established area of the school has gained national and international recognition through design awards, and showcasing at Graduate Fashion Week and New Designers in London. Positioned to create graduates who are creative and entrepreneurial, but with a skills set that matches industry needs, Fashion at UEL is also renowned for producing market-ready graduates who progress to work far and wide across the creative industries, holding major positions in groups such as Arcadia and Marks and Spencer, and companies like Ralph Lauren.

The University of Essex

The University of Essex, as the validation partner, is one of the UK’s leading academic institutions. Founded in 1964, it has grown in both fame and size rapidly, developing a worldwide reputation for top quality teaching and research. In the 2008 national assessment, it was ranked 9th out of 159 universities and colleges for the quality of its research - and top in the social sciences - while the quality of teaching was ranked 8th in the 2008 Sunday Times University Guide, as well as the ranking of the 15th in UK for overall student experience (Times Higher Education, January 2010).