The missions of the Military Academy of the National Guard are the following:[2] The Academy is envisioned to be: A military higher educational institution of national and international prestige, that is oriented towards the training of the officers with moral and ethnic values, shaped by a process of investigation training that is excellent and effective, that is aimed towards the defense and compliance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the law, and human rights.Just like so many military academies in the world, the NGMA is a medium-sized, highly residential baccalaureate college, with a full-time, four-year undergraduate program that emphasizes instruction in the arts, sciences, and professions with no graduate program, preparing men and women to take on the challenge of being commissioned officers of the Venezuelan National Guard.

The academic program consists of a structured core of subjects depending on the cadet's chosen specialty as a future National Guard officer, balanced between the arts and sciences, plus additional emphasis in law enforcement.

As all cadets are commissioned as second lieutenants upon graduation, military and leadership education is nested with academic instruction.

The Academy also has links with military and police academies in Latin America and thus also has a sizable number of foreign exchange cadets who graduate as Second Lieutenants or equivalents and with a bachelor's degree and thus return to their countries of origin to serve in their police forces.

As the Corps of Cadets is structured into a Regiment, command of the Battalions and Companies fall under the responsibility of active duty officers in the rank of captain or major, unlike the academies in the US and UK and therefore following Prussian practice.