The Graduate School of Media Communication and Performing Arts (Italian: Alta Scuola in Media Comunicazione e Spettacolo, or ALMED) is an Italian educational institution of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.

Mario Apollonio was the founder of the School of Journalism and Audiovisual Media in Bergamo in 1961.

Later, the school moved to Milan where it focused on teaching and research at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.

It was renamed as the School of Specialization in Communications and offers degrees in studies of Journalism, Advertising and Entertainment.

In 2002, it joined the system of the Postgraduate School's Cattolica with its current name.