Military Academy of the Bolivarian Army
Its campus is in Fort Tiuna in Caracas, shared with the National Guard Military Academy.Just like so many military academies in the world, the MABA 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 officers of the Venezuelan Army.The academic program consists of a structured core of subjects depending on the cadet's chosen specialty as a future Army officer, balanced between the arts and sciences.As all cadets are commissioned as second lieutenants upon graduation, military and leadership education is nested with academic instruction.As the Corps of Cadets is structured into a Brigade, 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.