The academy is open for enrollment to both sexes, and focuses on the initial training and selection of future military officers in the Italian Army or in the Carabinieri.

Upon the successful completion of the syllabus, the trainee can then either go on to study another three years at the Military Research Institute of Turin or at the Carabinieri Officer Candidate School in Rome.

In 1669, Duke Charles Emmanuel II devised the creation of an academy to provide competent military leaders who would be faithful to the House of Savoy.

On January 1, 1678, the Duchess Marie Jeanne Baptiste of Savoy-Nemours, the state regent, opened the Royal Academy.

Following the Restoration, the Duke Francis IV of Austria-Este founded another expansion, the Military Academy of Nobility,[2] which was later opened to young people without noble titles.

In 1943, the two institutions were suspended, which resumed their function in May 1944 at the barracks of Pico Lecce as a Special Commando Royal Military Academy.

After the end of the war and the fall of the monarchy, the Military Academy in Modena (1947) became unified by decision of the then Chief of Staff of the Italian Army Raffaele Cadorna.

These activities are mostly mock exercises with small arms and armor, training in hand-to-hand fighting, learning how to maintain cohesion when getting to battlefields and military orientation and direction finding.

The years of study are divided as follows: The students who pass this course will be able to put the black ribbon with a red background of the "chosen patrolman" on their uniforms [7] The Coat of Arms of the academy was instituted by the decree of the Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga in 1987.