The National Academy of Art has two departments, of Fine Arts and of Applied Arts.

The chairs in both departments are responsible for teaching and research, and for the development and implementation of the curricula in the following fields where students acquire professional university degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and Doctor of Arts.

The curricula of all disciplines incorporate History of Art, Aesthetics, Philosophy, Drawing, Anatomy, Perspective, Foreign languages, Sports. The students willing to qualify as teachers, study the additional disciplines of Pedagogy, Applied experimental psychology of visual arts, Psychology, Mapping, Pedagogical practice and Methodology of visual arts (those are taught by members of the chairs of Art and Pedagogy, Drawing and Comprehensive disciplines).
Each chair guarantees specialisations and doctoral studies in all abovementioned subjects.
Through its chairs, courses and curricula the National Academy of Art aims at the best professional and comprehensive education of its students.
The academic year has a winter, and a summer term, both ending in examination periods. The winter term begins in September/October and ends in May. The exams take place approx. in the second half of January-beginning of February; as well as throughout June, with reprieve sessions in February and September.
BA degree can be obtained following a four-year course of study while MA requires 18 months (exception is made in the case of History of Art and Restoration that only offer MA courses, with a 5-year course of study).
Teaching at the Academy focuses on individual disciplines, with ECTS for each discipline calculated in number of hours per term or per academic year. The courses in each of the disciplines end with exams, the evaluation is done on the six-mark scale. Educational tasks for the students during their course of study, seminars, course diploma works, defence of diploma works and projects, alongside with the exams in theory of the subjects, form an integral and important part of the education.