It is based in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy, and has branches in Florence, London and Paris, Shanghai and Shenzhen in China, Mumbai in India, and Miami in the United States.

[11] In 2011, Career Education Corporation sold the Istituto Marangoni to Providence Equity Partners for a price estimated between 17 and 20 million dollars.

[12] Since June 2016 the Istituto Marangoni has been listed by the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca, the Italian ministry of education, among the institutions authorised to award diplomas in music, dance and arts.

[13] In the UK, its BA and MA programmes are validated by the Manchester Metropolitan University,[14][15][16] which also awards master's degrees at the Paris branch.

[18] Alumni of the school include Franco Moschino,[19] Domenico Dolce (who left after four months, believing that the school had nothing to teach him),[20][19] Alessandra Facchinetti,[19] Anna Barroso,[21] Paula Cademartori,[22] Sandra Mansour,[23] Julie de Libran,[24] Rahul Mishra,[25] Rafael Lopez,[19] Alessandro Sartori,[26], Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies,[27] and Princess Maria Chiara of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.