MIAD maintains academic affiliations and/or exchange opportunities for students to study with other notable art and design colleges throughout the world or for their students to study at MIAD. Among these are:

• The Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France
• The Warsaw Academy of Art in Warsaw, Poland
• The Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany
• Institute of European Design in Milan, Rome, Turin, Madrid and Barcelona and
• The Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique, France