The National College of Arts (colloquially known as NCA) is a public university located in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

[5] The college runs faculty and student exchange programs with the School of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and the Instituto Superior de Arte.

It was named in honor of the recently assassinated British Viceroy Lord Mayo in 1876.

John Lockwood Kipling became the school's first principal and was also appointed as the first curator of the Lahore Museum which opened the same year in an adjacent building.

In 1958, the school was renamed the National College of Arts and Mian Barkat Ali was appointed as principal.