China's Art University List 17 Universities

Xi'an Conservatory of Music

City: Xi'an

Level: Ordinary

Type: Art

Location: Urban

Attribute: Public

Shandong University of Arts

City: Jinan

Level: Ordinary

Type: Art

Location: Urban

Attribute: Public

• The Alma Mater of the First Lady of the People's Republic of China, Peng Liyuan.


• Located in Jinan, Shandong University of Arts is a famous historic and cultural city with many springs, and is the only comprehensive arts institution of higher education in Shandong Province.


• There are 21 undergraduate majors, referring to 2 academic disciplines of literature and management, and including 3 first-rank disciplines of art, news communication and public management.


• The University now has 728 full-time teachers, including 292 teachers with doctor and master degrees, and 281 teachers with senior professional qualification. There are also 5 part-time doctor supervisors, 151 master supervisors, 8 key discipline leaders, 11 experts that receive special allowance of the State Council.


• At present, Shandong University of Arts has 7 provincial Elaborated Courses, and wins 1 national teaching achievement award and 6 provincial teaching achievement awards. In recent four years, the university wins 131 scientific search projects above department and bureau levels.


• For the past 50 years since its founding, Shandong University of Arts has cultivated nearly 20,000 qualified arts talents for both the country and society. Now there are 7,444 full-time undergraduates and professional training students, including 6,448 undergraduates, and 401 graduate students.

Hebei Academy of Fine Arts

City: Shijiazhuang

Level: Ordinary

Type: Art

Location: Urban

Attribute: Private

Hebei Academy of Fine Arts, founded in 2002, is a full-time undergraduate fine arts
university with art discipline as its main subject and design discipline as its development focus. It
is one of the nine independent academies of fine arts in China.The academy covers an area of
4,690,000 square meters with a total construction area of 643,200 square meters, and be with
1,640,000 books in the library, 31000 undergraduate and junior college students.

Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art

City: Guangzhou

Level: Ordinary

Type: Art

Location: Urban

Attribute: Public

• Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts（GAFA),the only one of its kind in South China, is the predecessor of Central South College of Fine Arts.


• In 2010, it was chosen as a candidate for PhD program by Guangdong Provincial Department of Education.


• The library houses an abundance of art books, journals, replicas, rubbings of ancient bronze and stone carvings, and rare thread-bound Chinese books. It boasts a collection of more than 400,000 books, 157,000 electronic books, and 15 databases.


• The school attaches great importance to academic research and artistic creation.


• In the past five years, the staff members won hundreds of top national prizes,.

Luxun Academy of Fine Arts

City: Shenyang

Level: Ordinary

Type: Art

Location: Urban

Attribute: Public

• The predecessor of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts (LAFA) was the Yanan-based Luxun Arts College (LAC) founded, in 1938, by the pioneering generation of Chinese Revolutionaries including Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai.


• The academy is blessed with a faculty of quality, competence and rational-composition.


• The academy is both a prominent institution of higher education, and a base for art creation, design and studies.


•  The academy tops the list of art academies in China in its participating rates and prize-winning rate at the various art exhibitions of the country.


•  The academy is a leader in the creation of large-scale works of historic themes.


• “To Play up the LAC Tradition, and to Insist on Innovation” is the foundation underlies the development of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts.


• LAFA has established sister relationship with 21 prestigious higher educational institutions in other countries, which serves as the platform on which numerous inter-school academic and personnel exchanges are conducted.

Tianjin Conservatory Of Music

City: Tianjin

Level: Ordinary

Type: Art

Location: Urban

Attribute: Public

• This university locates geographically well. It only takes 20 minutes from the airport of Tianjin. And nearby the university there are all kinds of cultural entertainment, leisure-shopping place.


• The TCM now has formed a strong contingent in teaching and administration.


• Large investments are regularly made to upgrade and improve the teaching resources and facilities.


• Tianjin Conservatory Of Music (TCM) is the only a house of professional music universities and colleges of Tianjin.

Beijing Dance Academy

City: Beijing

Level: Ordinary

Type: Art

Location: Urban

Attribute: Public

• Beijing Dance Academy is the only institution of higher education in dance in China.


• The Academy was approved by the State Academic Degree Commission to be an authorized unit to grant the MA degree in 1999.


• The Academy is proud of its talented faculty, a great variety of dance forms as well as abundant teaching materials and rigorous approaches to academic research.


• Every year, the Academy invites foreign guest artists to teach and teachers of the Academy are invited to teach abroad as well.


• The Academy has made remarkable achievements in teaching, scientific research and artistic practice over the past decades.


• The Academy is ranked among the best institutions in China and the prestigious dance academies in the world.

Beijing Film Academy

City: Beijing

Level: Ordinary

Type: Art

Location: Urban

Attribute: Public

• Our teaching philosophy celebrates “technical mastery fostering artistic vision”. Our extensive professional library covers an area of 2057 square meters with an up-to-date collection of 325,600 books and almost 2000 Gigabytes of E-books.


• BFA has four professional studios equipped with state-of-the-art production equipment from leading industry suppliers


• In 1984, BFA became a full international member of association of the world's major film and television schools association CILECT (Centre International de Liaison des Ecoles de Cinéma et de Télévision).


• In 1988 BFA was elected as a council member or CILECT, and in 2002, BFA’s International Dean was elected as Executive Chair of CILECT’s annual meeting in the Asia-Pacific region.


• In November 2008, BFA successfully hosted the "2008 CILECT Congress", attracting more than 200 presidents and delegates of nearly 100 member institutions from 48 countries.


• According to the Hollywood Reporter, BFA has been ranked third amongst the world’s film academies for two consecutive years.


• Beijing Film Academy (BFA) is the Largest film academy in Asia and World-class teaching and production facilities

Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts

City: Xi'an

Level: Ordinary

Type: Art

Location: Urban

Attribute: Public

• Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts was founded in 1949. She is the only art academy in northwest, whose forerunner is the Art College in Northwest Army & Government University.


• There are also many research agencies within the school, the school has branches in Shenzhen, Qingdao, and Shanghai.


• The academy also has a professional art magazine Northwest Art published at home and abroad.


• It has the right to offer master’s degree in 22 research directions in fine art and design field, to offer PhD in 6 research directions in fine art filed.


• The school is qualified to receive international students, and students from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, and foreign experts.


• Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts is located in the south part of Xi’an City which is famous for its’ long history and rich culture.