The Central Academy of Fine Arts is the only higher art school directly under the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. There are currently eight professional branches, including the Chinese Painting Academy, the School of Styling, the School of Design, the School of Architecture, the School of Humanities, the School of Urban Design, the School of Experimental Arts, and the School of Art Management and Education. There are also the Institute of Styling Arts, the School of Continuing Education, and the affiliated secondary art school. The college admits vocational school students (affiliated middle school), associate degree students (adult education), undergraduate students, master’s students, doctoral students, and various types of continuing education students every year. There are currently 662 in-service faculty members, over 4700 undergraduate and graduate students, and more than 100 international students from over a dozen countries. The teaching and research area of the college covers a total of 495 acres, with a total construction area of 247000 square meters.
The college is committed to building a modern form of art education discipline structure that supports and influences disciplines such as modeling, design, architecture, and humanities. It plays a leading role in constructing a new century of art education system with Chinese characteristics, and has won high praise from the international art education community with its distinctive Chinese characteristics, high-level teaching quality, and research achievements. It has become a representative, leading, and exemplary art college in the field of higher art education in China, and enjoys an important position among world-class art colleges.