The institution also offers a full range of government tuition fees subsidised, 2 to 3-years undergraduate degree programmes for NAFA's diploma graduates in partnership with the prestigious University of the Arts London in England, United Kingdom.

Students with GCE A-Level certificates as well as those without a relevant Singapore's polytechnic diplomas will be allowed to enrol in NAFA-UAL's degree programmes for the first time.

[12] NAFA was founded in a two-storey Geylang shophouse in 1938 by Lim Hak Tai, with its first class made up of 14 students.

Academy students can also apply for places in any faculty freely in the university with advanced placement through the signing ceremony for the memorandum of understanding.

For students who are looking to pursue postgraduate studies, NAFA - RCM offers performance degree courses at the Master’s level in Singapore.

The Master of Performance and Master of Composition route develops Western and Chinese instrumentalists' performance or composition skills to a high professional level through intensive training within 2 years (full time) or 3 years (part time).

TFCSEA@NAFA, a website housing a full-text bilingual database of more than 100,000 pages of Southeast Asian arts materials was launched in 2011 to aid scholars and students' research in this area.

Built in 2017 at a cost of $40 million, the building has art studios and classrooms meant to increase the available work and study space for students.

Minister for Education Ong Ye Kung officially opened the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts' Campus 1 Tower Block during the school's 80th anniversary celebrations.

Campus 3 contains a 380-seat theatre with a rotating central platform on its stage, an adjustable orchestra pit, and two Steinway model D grand pianos.