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Mission Statement
Always making a point of fostering the students' innovation spirit and ability, the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, keeps expanding the students' horizon to improve their comprehensive quality, while strengthening teaching of fundamental major courses. At the Academy, great attention is paid to the studies of fine heritage of folk arts of all nationalities both at home and abroad. Also, attaching great importance to academic exchanges, the Academy keeps introducing and studying the latest foreign thoughts and methodology of fine arts and artistic design. It advocates the spirit of being precise in pursuing studies, relation theory to practice and seeking truth from fact, and stresses the need to suit design to lives, and the combination of design and craft manufacture, and that of art and science. Students are trained to acutely grasp the changing trend and pace of social and cultural life. The Academy strives to create lively academic atmosphere and fine education environment.
International Role
Since 1956, the Academy has established friendly exchanges with over twenty overseas universities, including Tokyo Art University in Japan, the Art College of Chicago in the U.S., the School of Fine Arts of the University of Washington, The College of Art MIT, University of Art and Design Helsinki and so on. It has invited celebrated experts, professors and scholars of artistic design from over twenty countries in Europe, America, Asia to give lectures.
National Role
Students graduating from the Academy are well received in the society with their fine quality. They work at State organs, news and press, institutions of higher learning, culture and art organizations, research institutes, as well as various enterprises, making significant contribution to the country's economic development and cultural and ideological progress, and to the prosperity and development of its art design and fine arts undertaking.
Main Focus
FINE ARTS AS WELL AS DESIGN IN ALL KINDS OF FIELDS
Faculties and Departments
The Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University is the first higher education institute of arts and design in China, with The Central Academy of Arts & Design being its predecessor, was established in 1956 and merged into Tsinghua University in 1999.
In addition to a basic teaching and research group, there are ten departments to cover textile and fashion design, ceramic design, visual communication design, environmental art design, industrial design, arts and crafts, information art & design, painting, sculpture, and art history.
Currently the Academy has a full-time faculty team of 172 members, including 66 professors,94 associate professors, and 10 lecturers.
Bachelor Level Programs
BA in textile & fashion design
BA in product design (textile design)
BA in ceramic design
BA in virual communication design
BA in product design
BA in product design (vehicle styling design）
BA in arts & science (exhibition design）
BA in arts & science (information design)
BA in animation
BA in photography
BA in environmental art design
BA in arts & crafts ( fiber art)
BA in arts & crafts (glass art)
BA in arts & crafts (metal art)
BA in arts & crafts (lacquer art)
BA in Chinese painting
BA in painting (oil painting)
BA in painting (print making)
BA in painting (mural)
BA in sculpture
BA in art history
Master Level Programs
MA in art history
MA in textile & fashion design
MA in ceramic design
MA in industrial design
MA in environmental art design
MA in graphic design
MA in information art & design
MA in sculpture
MA in arts & crafts
MA in painting
MA in fine arts
Research Activity and Main Areas
YES, ALL FIELDS CONCERNING ART DESIGN
Doctorate Level Programs
DA in art history
DA in fine arts
DA in design
Subject Areas for Exchange Students
all fields of design
Application Deadlines
Application Schedule:
For spring semester program: October 15 – November 30（previous year）
For fall semester program: March 15 –May 15（present year）
Teaching Languages
English & Chinese
Semester Dates
For spring semester: the end of Feburary – the end of July
For fall semester: the beginning of September-the beginning of January
Cost of Living Per Month (Studying and Living)
$500 per month living on campus or $1000 per month living out of campus
