The Preparatory music course is addressed both to people wishing to start to learn the music practice without any previous qualifications, and, as a support, to people who intend to enrol to PIAMS institutional courses or other structured education initiatives.

Provides a two-year course geared to the complete education of people in charge with a liturgical service mainly in the music, singing, proclamation and animation fields, for a competent performance of their own ministry in favour of the assemblies. Two specialized courses are active: Liturgical musicians / Music animators and for Readers / Commentators / Directors of celebration.

Since 1940 PIAMS is a university centre licensed to grant all the academic degrees which the current canon system envisages. PIAMS qualifications are granted under the control of the Apostolic See. They are recognized in all the countries, with which the Holy See has diplomatic relations

Additional courses are support subjects which provide a useful preparation for liturgical-musical studies and an integration of the academic education

Their objective is to develop specific competences and abilities in the field of the music for the liturgy according to the ritual plans and the liturgical books of the post- Second Vatican Council era.

PIAMS confers professional qualifications and certificates of competence which are recognized within the Regional description of the professional standard of Lombardy Region. In specific sectors qualifications granted by PIAMS are therefore directly usable in the world of work.

Free courses represent the extracurricular academic programme of PIAMS, and include different subjects divided into 5 distinct areas: Musical language, Musicology, Practical Music, Ambrosian Sciences and Technology. These courses are run by qualified, highly experienced, well-known teachers and can be provided in innovative ways.

Small monographic cycles of lessons dedicated to interdisciplinary topics among music, liturgy, literature and history, addressed to a public with wide cultural interests.

During the academic year PIAMS promotes a series of study weeks in order to advance the liturgical-musical culture and the thinking on Ambrosian rite and chant. Each Week is thought for a limited number of students, with an amount reserved for foreigners.