The Central Academy of Drama belongs to the performance department, which mainly faces the direction of drama, film and television performance. China Opera Academy is also a performance department, but it mainly focuses on drama performance and classical dance performance.

As the highest institution of Chinese opera education, China Opera Academy currently has 25 major directions of 10 specialty, including 2 national specialty construction sites and 4 Beijing specialty construction sites. At present, there are three master's degree awarding points in drama, drama, art and musicology, and 2 1 research direction.

The Central Academy of Drama is directly under the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC). The Central Academy of Drama has departments of performance, choreography, stage art, drama literature, musicals, Peking Opera, opera, dance drama, drama management and film and television. The Central Academy of Drama has 1 national teaching team, 3 national specialty construction sites, 1 national talent training mode innovation experimental zone, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center and 3 national excellent courses (incomplete statistics).